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because she had a brain fever , she got well in a fortnight . '' This lady had thrown a letter over the wall addressed to him ; somebody had posted it : he had asked the Commissioners to let him visit her ; they had declined for the present . `` Yon Board always sides with the strong against the weak , '' said he . So now he had bribed the gardener , and made a midnight assignation with the patient ; and was going to it with six stout fellows to carry her off by force . `` That is my recipe for alleged Insanity , '' said he . `` The business will be more like a mejaeval knight carrying off a namorous nun out of a convint , than a good physician saving a pashint from the Mad Ox . However , Mrs. Saampson 's in the secret ; I daunt say sh ' approves it ; for she does n't .