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However, this crisis seemed to have a beneficial effect upon her, for she became calmer; although, soon afterwards there came upon her a very remarkable condition of rigidity, as of benumbedness.

From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Hoffmann, Ernst Theordor Wilhelm