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"All through"

"What did you think of the two lines that I wrote in it?"

"I realized at once that the woiven the voluory, for I could not take

those two lines as a ht That woel See, read this letter" And he

handed to me a paper which seemed to have been many times reread

I opened it, and this is what it contained: "MY DEAR ARMAND:--I have received your letter You are still good, and

I thank God for it Yes, my friend, I am ill, and with one of those

diseases that never relent; but the interest you still take in h, I expect, to have the

happiness of pressing the hand which has written the kind letter I have

just received; the words of it would be enough to cure

could cure me I shall not see you, for I aues away My poor friend! your Marguerite of old

tied It is better perhaps for you not to see her

again than to see her as she is You ask if I forgive you; oh, with all