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Updated: June 21, 2025

God! how terrible-what, what am I to do?" he says, taking the sufferer's hand in his own. Now he rubs it, now raises her head, makes an effort to wake a few of the miserable sleepers, and calls aloud for help. "Help! help! help!" he shouts, and the shout re-echoes through the air and along the hollow court. "A woman is dying, dying here on the cold stones-with no one to raise a hand for her!"

F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams - Justice in the By-Ways, a Tale of Life