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HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN.
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sion; neither am I fiend-like, who have snatched a fiend's office from his hands. It is our fate. Let the black flower blossom as it may! Now go thy ways, and deal as thou wilt with yonder man."

He waived his hand, and betook himself again to his employment of gathering herbs.