The Illegal Marriage — page 35: what you’re looking at

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THE ILLEGAL MARRIAGE. 27 A sleepless night, the hours of fatigue, the faint- ness that had more than once come over him, the confusion of ideas, and more than all his sorrow for Cecy, and sympathy with his friend, very nearly overcame him, and he had hard work to keep from dozing in his chair. The last things that he remembered were, the weeping woman below, and the look of Cecy Mor- ganas she fainted by that dreadful bed; and with an indistinct fancy that it might seem inhumane for him to think of sleeping even, when Cecy was so ill, and his friend insensible so near him, he sank into an uneasy slumber. Nature could bear up no longer. (Eo) comicbooks