perhaps, that she had not fulfilled her duty by him. He received her affectionately, when she went up to his bed-side, and begged that everybody would go out of the room, saying, that he had something very particular to speak about. He talked to her for some time, but nobody knows the particulars of their conversation: though it is believed that the care of her immortal soul was the subject of the last discourse which this dear little boy held with her. She came out of his room with her eyes swelled with crying, and his
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