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"Do you understand, , and fro-roo is taken away, and that nothing remains to

me in case I do not die I hope they ait till the end before they

begin to sell

"Oh, , it is God who is just and

inflexible!

"And now, dear love, you will co, for if I put aside the least thing for you, they oods

"It is a sad life that I aain before I die According

to all probability, good-bye, er letter, but those who say they are going to cure , and my hand refuses to write any more

"MARGUERITE GAUTIER"

The last tords were scarcely legible I returned the letter to

Arain in hisit on paper, for he said to me as he took it: "Who would think that a kept woman could have written that?" And,

overco of the

letter, which he finally carried to his lips

"And when I think," he went on, "that she died before I could see her,