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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: you are far away, you are cursing me, and there is not a word of
consolation from you. But it is only chance that has made you
leave me, I am sure, for if you were at Paris, you would not
leave my bedside.
December 25.
My doctor tells me I must not write every day. And indeed my
memories only increase my fever, but yesterday I received a
letter which did me good, more because of what it said than by
the material help which it contained. I can write to you, then,
to-day. This letter is from your father, and this is what it
says:
 Camille |