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He knew everything, he spoke to me of you, but at the moment that he received your letter he was at the end. I was still with him as he went from time to eternity. He died as a good Christian Pray for him, without being sad^ Like people who don't believe in a better life. If we don't know that your soul is immortal and that your body, even your body must ?. Having made you sad for too long I want to tell^your mother would be too happy if you listen to your project of coming for a time with your wife and your daughter Andrisine. You would make
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happiness for me=Eiier. (encouraging him to bring his wi?e and daughter to France) End of Letter #7
would be too daring never to try to climb to the top of the mast every evening, to go to bed early, to get along well with the crew End but not beginning) Living and dieing as good Christians
I told you I am old, perhaps this is the last time that I write to you because
all the troubles all the inflictions that I have been through lead me quietly
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to the tomb. What makes my last days'unhappy is to think that I will not see you anymore. What makes the bad things worse is to know that you^Jon feel such great sadness. Your poor younger brother who asked for you during the course of his last sickness	he died in	possession of	all	his faculties .	I believe that it
is ?	She has me	very worried about her.	I'm	ashamed in front	of the family I ^
want God to pardon her as I pardon her beca^ce for me I would embrace her tenderly if it were given me to see her as well as her family. The only thing that I ask of her	and that I	beg her to	give me is to	live as a good Christian and to bring
up her	children.	Everyday I	pray for her,	for	you, and for all	your family
that (half sheet missing) I didn't know what to do if you could take your place that belong to you I would be very happy. At least that you take what comes to you from the deceased, your father, if not we will be obliged to abandon this good which is very much too bftdy bad. I feel that this sharing cannot be done