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The March Family Trilogy

PART III
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Now!" "Then--then you will see her ?" "See her!" Her voice was so terrible that he fled before it, and he returned with Miss Triscoe in a dreamlike simultaneity.

He remembered, as he led the way into his corridor, to apologize for bringing her down into a basement room.
"Oh, we're in the basement, too; it was all we could get," she said in words that ended within the state-room he opened to her.

Then he went back and took her chair and wraps beside her father.
He let the general himself lead the way up to his health, which he was not slow in reaching, and was not quick in leaving.

He reminded March of the state he had seen him in at Wurzburg, and he said it had gone from bad to worse with him.

At Weimar he had taken to his bed and merely escaped from it with his life.


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