Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-06-21

which will be this time one less, you viii
feel the inflowing ARR aa
| All occurred as lie said. The grasp on
my hand was most painful The wind
like warm air and currents of cold wers
more than distinctly felt, and the gasps
were diminished TO twelve.
tin eleven minutes more, this will be
repeated with ionly the change of one
less gasping sound. " p
| "And can you not weken her, can You
not stimulate her TO action, does shs
never awakeg"
| enc. Nothing eau Stir her. No
noise, no torture, no exquisite pains.
She has been exposed to all these. But
in eleven minutes more, as | said, what
you have seen will be repeated, and
| them
swell, what thenln $50. 8.
"rhen," continued he, calmly, she will
awake herself" 1rs7s1 rr7E
"Awake9 Why Thought she never
| awoke.n DE.rf
"On the contrary she wakes thirteen
times every twenty-four hours, and /
| know to moment when they will be.
After the repetition of what you have
just witnessed she win make a motion of
swallowing as If to clear her throat To-
day, as the air is damp, she viii do this
four times. She will then, with an
effort, begin to breathe naturally-hardly
at first, then softly and regularly, she
viii remain awake nine minutes, she will
sit up in bed, she will eat, she viii be in
troduced to you, you win converse, she
will at the end OF nine minutes lose her
breath again, the head will spin, she will
relapse, toawaken again at 8, again at Z.
All occurred as he had said. / had
been in the presence of this living wo-
man half an hour and she had not
breathed. At last | was to see her
breathe. Punctually at the second she
closed her throat or swallowed noiselessly
and almost effortlessly. Her eyelids
shook, they moved, they opened, she
brcathed with difficulty, then softly and
regularly, her breast hcaved, her eyes
opened, they were upon me, felt she
was no more spectacle do not mean
that, but wonder. 1 felt she was wo-
man and stranger and l went away.
''How do you feel to-day, Miss Car
rie2" he said.
81 am always in great pain," was the
reply in a low emotionlcss voice.
''T'here is gentleman who has come
here long way to see you. VIII you
see him2"
She bowed her head and with her
trembling hand adjusted the drapery
about her shoulders / approached as
she turned her head toward me. Her
expression was as one who has passed
the power of recognition.
"Will you converse with me?n / said.
Certainly" she replied.
remarkedupon the feelings with which
| had anticipated my visit and asked her
if she was conscious of any other than
her waking moments.
She replied that she was not
"Then you suffer no pain asked.
''None, only when wake, then am
in constant suffering 2 --tzs
Her eyes were all this time half closed.
81 think should admire the color of
your eyes" said, SHAT is if you would
permit me to see them.
She turned them full upon me. They
were not large but bright and hazel, with
rather yivacious expression and bearing
no trace of pain.
''You have had some pictures taken, DO
you like them! ""
''Only few, do not remember very
well, but they do not seem to resemble
me-"
At this point her dinner was brought.
1t consisted of sweetened coffee, broth
of squirrel and the inevitable hot bis
cult she partook sparingly of all but the
latter.
Her attendant seemed 10 think it would
be surprising to me that she ate 30 little
two ounces.
But it did not ] eat scarcely more my
self when in this country.
In fact rather admired her taste in
this respect. -.. ...... ..
The trance-state Immediately cnsued,
followed by another "spasm, as they are
termed, at the end of the usual eleven
....
arose to go, and as my horse was
brought around by her brother, in bidding
adieu to the family, | remembered what
the World correspondent had said about
their