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Strychnia, brucia, ignatia, calabarin, woovarin, atropin, digitalin, and many others, including all whose effect is most tremendous upon the human system, are in this group. Not without insight did the early discoverers call nitrogen azote, "the foe to life."
And she pointed to a case of babyish ornaments, pin-cushions, and artificial flowers. "How very strange," said Olive, "to think that the interests and duties of a woman's life should sink down into such trifles as these. I wonder if the nuns are happy?" "Stay and judge, for here comes one, my chief friend here, Sister Ignatia."
Among her scholars there were, for the girls, respectively Alcestine Alameda, Boadicea Beatrice, Claudia Clarinda, Eugenia Eurydice, Venetia Ignatia, and so on, indefinitely; and among a group of ragged, bare-footed boys, a number of time-honored Bible names, and such distinguished modern ones as George Washington, Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, Edward Everett, and even down to one little shock-headed, lisping, Abraham Lincoln.
He then opened a sort of china closet, poured a few drops of a colorless liquid from a tiny bottle into a wine-glass, and filled the glass with water from a filter. "Drink that, if you please." She looked at him with her eyes brimming. "Must I?" "Yes; it will do you good for once in a way. It is only Ignatia." She drank it by degrees, and a tear along with it that fell into the glass.
And she waited anxiously until Sister Ignatia came back. "She says she is glad you are happy, and married to that good friend of hers, to whom she owes so much; but that she is dead to the world, and wishes to hear of no one any more. Still, when I told her you lived at Morningside, she began to tremble.
"You must come and see our chapel, our beautiful chapel," said Sister Ignatia. "We have got pictures of our St. Margaret and all her children." And when they reached the spot a gilded, decorated, flower-garden temple, she pointed out with great interest the various memorials of the sainted Scottish Queen.
And she felt how solemn is the portion of those whose cup God has thus crowned, in order that they may pour it out before Him continually, in offerings of thanksgiving and of fruitful deeds. Sister Ignatia entered the same bright-eyed, benevolent, simple soul. "Ah, you are come again this week, too, my dear Mrs. "She will not, then?" said Olive, sighing. "No.
I was by no means prepared, therefore, for the almost inappreciable gain in the weeks which succeeded, and in some anxiety consulted a number of physicians, who each suggested in a timid way the trial, some of strychnine, some of valerian, some of lupuline, hyoscyamus, ignatia, belladonna, and what not.
Sister Ignatia chattered merrily about their work, their beautiful flowers, and their pupils of the convent school. Happy, very happy, she said they all were at St. Margaret's; but it seemed to Olive like the aimless, thoughtless happiness of a child.
Of these nitrogenous alkaloids, even the nuts of the tree, which furnishes the most powerful, swift poison of the world, contains but three the above-named strychnia, brucia, and ignatia principles shared in common with its pathological congener, the St. Ignatius bean. First, those whose action is merely acrid so far as known expending themselves upon the mucous coats.
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