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ask that at least half my money should be

given to my dearest sister, so that she

might marry her lover and live happily with
him ; but, you know, I can’t speak, and I

must just leave that, like everything else,
to God.1

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It seemed a very little coffin to bring

into the church and place in the aisle on
the exact spot where only a short time ago

his old grandfather’s coffin had rested, and
glancing down upon it, the Kneeling

Knight wondered if by this time his little
friend had solved some of the great questions

concerning which he had been so anxious. It
was a very little coffin, but it had brought

together a great number of mourners ; and
it is a remarkable fact that they really, and

without any attempt at concealment, grieved

for the ioss of the poor patient dumb child,
who, now that he was dead, was looked
upon as having been everybody’s friend.