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"'Yes, probably she repents,' thought I; 'shall I forgive her? Yes, she
is dying, I must forgive her,' I added, trying to be generous.
"I approached the bedside. With difficulty she raised her eyes, one of
which was swollen, and uttered these words haltingly:
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'You have accomplished what you desired. You have killed me.'
And in her face, through the physical sufferings, in spite of the
approach of death, was expressed the same old hatred, so familiar to me.
"'The children . . . I will not give them to you . . . all the
same. . . . She (her sister) shall take them.' . . .
"But of that which I considered essential, of her fault, of her treason,
one would have said that she did not think it necessary to say even a
word.
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'Yes, revel in what you have done.'
And she sobbed.
At the door stood her sister with the children.
'Yes, see what you have done!'
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