The time of my end approaches. I have lately been subject to attacks of angina pectoris; and in the ordinary course of things, my physician tells me, I may fairly hope that my life will not be protracted many months. Unless, then, I am cursed with an exceptional physical constitu-tion, as I am cursed with an exceptional mental character, I shall not much longer groan under the wearisome burt-hen of this earthly existence. If it were to be otherwise-if I were to live on to the age most men desire and provi-de for-I should for once have known whether the mise-ries of delusive expectation can outweigh the miseries of true provision. For I foresee when I shall die, and everyt-hing that will happen in my last moments.
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