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Updated: April 30, 2025
There was a double knock at the same instant at the street door. Lucy delayed to give orders. "Can it be a letter, Tom! so late?" she said, changing colour. "Pray run and see." "That an't powst" Tom remarked, as he obeyed his mistress. "Are you very anxious for a letter, Mrs. Feverel?" Lord Mountfalcon inquired. "Oh, no! yes, I am, very," said Lucy.
Beckman appears to favour this idea, and suggests that a similar poison is used in the East, under the name of powst, being water that had stood a night over the juice of poppies. It is given to princes, whom it is wished to despatch privately; and produces loss of strength and understanding, so that they die in the end, torpid and insensible.
"Pray run and see." "That an't powst" Tom remarked, as he obeyed his mistress. "Are you very anxious for a letter, Mrs. Feverel?" Lord Mountfalcon inquired. "Oh, no! yes, I am, very." said Lucy. Her quick ear caught the tones of a voice she remembered. "That dear old thing has come to see me," she cried, starting up. Tom ushered a bunch of black satin into the room. "Mrs.
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