Sealed Lips — page 225: what you’re looking at

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SHALED LIPS, 217 CHAPTER XXIV. “HAS HE ARRIVED?” The shock is severe for the strongest of men, if he learns suddenly that he must die, and Godefroid had no idea that he was so near his end. In spite of his rare courage the shock prostrated him. They were able to revive him, and when the physician visited him in the evening he requested to be left with him alone. : “How many days yet? Several?” asked he. “Do not be alarmed,” replied the physician. “It was a simple faint.” “Tam not alarmed, but I wishto know. Do not treat me like a child. Will it be fifteen days?” The doctor seemed to have suddenly become deaf. “Hight, then?” “Something like that.” “Shall I suffer much?” “T can assure you, no. As little as possible. For an instant probably.” “Ah! so much the better! That is too much, for our loved ones to have to pass long hours about the repulsive disfigured object that death makes of us. Doctor, will you do me a great and a last service? Will you make my wife believe that her presence causes me dangerous emotion. That she must come Ecomichooks.