Her name was Persis Leigh , and she would have come out with him if it had n't been for her old uncle . He was sick , and he 'd looked after her when her parents died and she would n't leave him . And now he was dead and she was coming out to marry John Selwyn . 'T was n't no easy journey for a woman in them days . There were n't no steamers , you must ricollect . '' ` When do you expect her ? ' says I. '' ` She sails on the Royal William , the 20th of June , ' says he , ` and so she should be here by mid-July . I must set Carpenter Johnson to building me a home for her . Her letter come today . I know before I opened it that it had good news for me . I saw her a few nights ago . ' `` I did n't understand him , and then he explained -- though I did n't understand THAT much better . He said he had a gift -- or a curse . Them was his words , Mistress Blythe -- a gift or a curse . He did n't know which it was . He said a great-great-grandmother of his had had it , and they burned her for a witch on account of it . He said queer spells -- trances , I think was the name he give 'em -- come over him now and again . Are there such things , Doctor ? '' `` There are people who are certainly subject to trances , '' answered Gilbert . `` The matter is more in the line of psychical research than medical .
What were the trances of this John XXXXX like ? ''
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