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"Ever since I heard of it, I have fancied a strange, faint kind of smell everywhere, which is absurd enough." "I will make you a camphor-bag," said my mother, "that ought to overpower any faint smell, and it is a charm against infection." I believe Mr. Gordon was beginning to thank her, but his words ended in a sort of inarticulate groan.
My father took him to his quarters, and sent the surgeon to him; and my mother took me on her knee, and sat silent for a long time, with the unfinished camphor-bag beside her. The next day I went to the end of our compound with Ayah, to see the Colonel's funeral pass. The procession seemed endless.
Arkwright supported our refusals was comical, and she was only pacified at last by having the "scrap-bag" of odds and ends of net, muslin, lace, and embroidery handed over to her, from which she made us set after set of dainty collars and sleeves in various "modes," sitting well under the shade of the trees, on a camp-stool, with a camphor-bag to keep away insects, and in bodily fear of the dogs.
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