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Illnesses like Ar about theht or are very soon overcoht after the events

which I have just related Arreat friends During the whole course of his illness I had

hardly left his side

Spring was profuse in its flowers, its leaves, its birds, its songs; and

arden, fro

breath of health seeet up, and we often sat talking at the open , at the hour when

the sun is at its height, frouerite, fearing lest the name should awaken sad recollections

hidden under the apparent calm of the invalid; but Ar of her, not as formerly, with

tears in his eyes, but with a sweet smile which reassured me as to the

state of his mind

I had noticed that ever since his last visit to the ceht on so violent a crisis, sorrow seeuerite's death no longer appeared to

hi from the

certainty of which he was now fully persuaded, and in order to banish

the sombre picture which often presented itself to him, he returned