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If he would not lose her he must at _ once _ relieve her of every fear and anxiety , '' said the physician , taking up his hat . '' _ That _ is the medicine she needs , and the _ only _ one that will do her much good . Good-morning . I will be in again at noon . '' And Adelaide , scarcely waiting to see him off , rushed away to her room to write to her brother exactly what he had told her , beseeching him , if he had any love for his child , to return immediately . The paper was all blistered with her tears , for they fell so fast it was with difficulty she could see to write . '' _ She _ has spoken from the first as though it were a settled thing that this sickness was to be her last ; and now a great , a terrible dread is coming over me that she is right .