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I believed I could. I drew the wife who had so long loved
me, closer to my side.
‘She told me that she made a last request to me, and left
me a last charge.’
‘And it was -’
‘That only I would occupy this vacant place.’
And Agnes laid her head upon my breast, and wept; and
I wept with her, though we were so happy.

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