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to me, Emma, I can't talk I am so weak." So I talked with him and showed him the pictures till we were interrupted by the entrance of sister Annie who had come to spend the day with him. He was glad to see her, but did not seem to enjoy anything all day was very restless and often faint-- We all attributed it to the heat and did not think that he was really worse. He often called us to bathe his forehead and would say "Oh! it feels so good!" Early in the afternoon Mary Reeve, Hannah & Sarah Wilde called Mary wished much to see him but he was then laying down and seemed almost too weak to express even a wish to see them, and looked so ill that I feared they would be too shocked at his altered appearance to be able to conceal it from him. I therefore excused him and requested Mary to call and see him the following Monday when I added he will be better and will enjoy it more. Had I even thought of the possibility of its being the last opportunity of her seeing him in life, I would not by any means have let her have gone without speaking once more to him who was to her as a brother. Poor Mary! we have both wept bitter tears over it since. We made an engagement to go out together and make calls on the Monday next, and she was also to visit Natty. How little did we dream of the sorrows of that eventful Monday! Starr came over to tea, he and Annie were both alarmed at his appearance, but knowing that we had medical advice, and that he was supposed to be recovering they did not say as much as they otherwise would have done, and his increasing weakness was attributed to the dreadful heat of the day which not only him but us also. I had bled at the nose several times during the day and felt so badly

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