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at one moment. Never before had the voice of that watch been so loud or rapid. All day long, all the next, and all the next, that warning continued. The strong pulse within the watch shook the table on which it rested when I drew it from my pocket, and made the garments on my bosom rise and fall when I replaced it.--Were we threatened with illness? No! her cheek was blooming and my pulse was regular. What could it mean! After four days I began to laugh at my own credulity, and even Rosa began to lose her faith in the monitor. About noon I left her, and went along to a little room where I kept my medical works and some rare drugs and curiosities. It was my purpose to study for a lecture which I was to deliver that evening. I seated myself at my desk and commenced to read; but after a few moments I began to experience a singular faintness, and to inhale a disagreeable odor. I recognized the smell in a moment. In one of the jars upon my shelves was a rare essence of great