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Cheyne, of a gentleman, Colonel Townsend, who could voluntarily produce a state of "dwawm" which was not then to be distinguished from death? 'I have read it in the notes to Aytoun's Scottish Cavaliers, said the doctor. Logan his heir? Is that hypothesis absolutely out of keeping with his curious character? 'No.
Ye ken that the Enemy has power, when a corp lies in a room, and the door is hafflins closed. Whiles they sit up, and grin and yammer. I hae kenned that. Weel, how long I had lain in the dwawm I canna say. The train that skirled maun hae been a coal train that rins by about half-past three in the morning.
What I am going to say will seem absurd to you, but the marquis spoke to me of his malady as a kind of "dwawming," I did not know what he meant, at the time, but yesterday I consulted the glossary of a Scotch novel: to dwawm, I think, is to lose consciousness? The doctor nodded. 'Now you have read, said Merton, 'the case published by Dr.
Bower; and she went on to recount the ingenious measures by which the marquis, recovering from his 'dwawm, had secretly withdrawn himself. 'I mind nothing of it, Jeanie, my woman, said the marquis. 'I thought I wakened with some deevil running a knife into me; he might have gone further, and I might have fared worse. He asked for money, but, faith, we niffered long and came to no bargain.
"What, in the name of all the saints, make you here, in this guise?" he asked in French, but with a rude Border accent. "I am a kindly Scot," I said in our own tongue, "of your own country. Give me water." And then a dwawm, as we call it, or fainting-fit, came over me.
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