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day. My brother, every now and then, would retire to his room and there, laying on his bed, slip a mild solution of Paregoric to ease imaginary pains. The servants received extra wages to banish sleep altogether. My role at night was either to play cards with my brother, or listen to the soliloquies of my spirit-haunted mother.