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together from infancy, their state should not be disturbed, or death
must come, and it cannot be otherwise. I love you all the same, but I
feel that I am no longer altogether with you, although I am as yet not
altogether with him."
"Come! try to sleep," repeated Ursus.
The voice answered,--
"
I shall have sleep enough soon."
Ursus replied, in trembling tones,--
"I tell you that we are going to Holland, to Rotterdam, which is a
city."
"Father," continued the voice, "I am not ill; if you are anxious about
that, you may rest easy. I have no fever. I am rather hot; it is nothing
more."
Ursus stammered out,--
"
"
"
At the mouth of the Meuse--"
I am quite well, father; but look here! I feel that I am going to die!"
Do nothing so foolish," said Ursus. And he added, "Above all, God
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