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  ...two forefingers of my other to the artery. -
- Would to heaven! my dear Eugenius, thou hadst passed by, and beheld me sitting in my black coat, and in my lack-a-day-sical manner, counting the throbs of it, one by one, with as much true devotion as if I had been watching the critical ebb or flow of her fever.--How wouldst thou have laugh'd and moralized upon my new profession!--and thou shouldst have laugh'd and moralized on.-- Trust me, my dear Eugenius, I should have said, There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.   "--But a grisette's! thou wouldst have said,--and in an open shop! Yorick -
- So much the better: for when my views are direct, Eugenius, I care not if all the world saw me feel it.
THE HUSBAND. PARIS.
I had counted twenty pulsations, and was going on fast towards the fortieth, when her husband, coming unexpected from a back parlour into the shop, put me a little out of my reckoning.--'Twas nobody but her husband, she said;--so I began a fresh score.--Monsieur is so good,...   Sterne, Laurence

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