“Sir, I have come to inform you that your father is dying; he has just been seized with an attack of apoplexy and the physicians despair of his life.”
BOOK 2.
PART III
CHAPTER I. DEATH, THE INEVITABLE
My father lived in the country some distance from Paris. When I arrived I found a physician in the house, who said to me:
“You are too late; your father expressed a desire to see you before he died.”
I entered, and saw my father dead. “Sir,” I said to the physician, “please have everyone retire that I may be alone here; my father had something to say to me, and he will say it.”