Notes
"The suspense: the fearful, acute suspense of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance; the racking thoughts that crowd upon the mind and make the heart beat violently and the breath come thick by the force of the images they conjure up before it; the desperate anxiety to be doing something to relieve the pain which we have no power to alleviate; the sinking of soul and spirit, which the sad remembrance of our helplessness produces..."
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