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Autobiography I have told how the Intermezzo and the Largo came

to be associated in my heart with Susy and Livy in their last

hours in this life。



From my windows I saw the hearse and the carriages wind

along the road and gradually grow vague and spectral in the

falling snow; and presently disappear。  Jean was gone out of my

life; and would not come back any more。  Jervis; the cousin she

had played with when they were babies togetherhe and her

beloved old Katywere conducting her to her distant childhood

home; where she will lie by her mother's side once more; in the

company of Susy and Langdon。





DECEMBER 26TH。  The dog came to see me at eight o'clock this

morning。  He was very affectionate; poor orphan!  My room will be

his quarters hereafter。



The storm raged all night。  It has raged all the morning。

The snow drives across the landscape in vast clouds; superb;

sublimeand Jean not here to see。





2:30 P。M。It is the time appointed。  The funeral has begun。

Four hundred miles away; but I can see it all; just as if I were

there。  The scene is the library in the Langdon homestead。

Jean's coffin stands where her mother and I stood; forty years

ago; and were married; and where Susy's coffin stood thirteen

years ago; where her mother's stood five years and a half ago;

and where mine will stand after a little time。





FIVE O'CLOCK。It is all over。





When Clara went away two weeks ago to live in Europe; it was

hard; but I could bear it; for I had Jean left。  I said WE would

be a family。  We said we would be close comrades and happyjust

we two。  That fair dream was in my mind when Jean met me at the

steamer last Monday; it was in my mind when she received me at

the door last Tuesday evening。  We were together; WE WERE A

FAMILY! the dream had come trueoh; precisely true; contentedly;

true; satisfyingly true! and remained true two whole days。



And now?  Now Jean is in her grave!



In the graveif I can believe it。  God rest her sweet

spirit!







1。  Katy Leary; who had been in the service of the Clemens family

for twenty…nine years。



2。  Mr。 Gabrilowitsch had been operated on for appendicitis。


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