[The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins]@TWC D-Link bookThe Haunted Hotel CHAPTER VIII 23/25
The street I cannot remember.
The name I can perfectly recall: it was an Italian name--'Mrs.Ferrari.' '"That night my lord nearly died of asphyxia.
I got him through it for the time; and his eyes showed that he understood me when I told him, the next morning, that I had posted the letter.
This was his last effort of consciousness.
When I saw him again he was sunk in apathy. He lingered in a state of insensibility, supported by stimulants, until the 25th, and died (unconscious to the last) on the evening of that day. '"As to the cause of his death, it seems (if I may be excused for saying so) simply absurd to ask the question.
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