Now it wrought neither as an astringent or a loosener; nor like opium, or bark, or mercury, or buckthorn, or any one drug which nature had bestowed upon the world--in short, it work'd not at all in her; and the cause of that was, that there was something working there before ----Babbler that I am! 
But it worked not at all in her; because there was something working there before - Babbler that I am! 