sal volatile

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"Have you any sal volatile in the house?" he asked, after he had felt her pulse.

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Mother does very much—she finds sal volatile does her good; did you ever try that?

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I told her that I was old enough to believe anything, but added that after what she had told me I would get a second glass of water, with sal volatile in it, for myself.

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It's nobody I've met at old Stars and Garters', though his lady-wife could no more do without me than without her sal volatile and flirtations.

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I provided myself with sal volatile and spirits of camphor,—we wore pockets in our gowns in those days,—and thus armed I presented 86 myself again to Mrs. Wilson.

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