The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 2


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succeeding now; but to my astonishment, his arm very readily, although  
feebly, followed every direction I assigned it with mine. I determined  
to hazard a few words of conversation.  
"M. Valdemar," I said, "are you asleep?" He made no answer, but I  
perceived a tremor about the lips, and was thus induced to repeat the  
question, again and again. At its third repetition, his whole frame was  
agitated by a very slight shivering; the eyelids unclosed themselves so  
far as to display a white line of the ball; the lips moved sluggishly,  
and from between them, in a barely audible whisper, issued the words:  
"Yes;--asleep now. Do not wake me!--let me die so!"  
I here felt the limbs and found them as rigid as ever. The right arm,  
as before, obeyed the direction of my hand. I questioned the sleep-waker  
again:  
"
Do you still feel pain in the breast, M. Valdemar?"  
The answer now was immediate, but even less audible than before: "No  
pain--I am dying."  
I did not think it advisable to disturb him farther just then, and  
nothing more was said or done until the arrival of Dr. F--, who came a  
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