[George Washington by William Roscoe Thayer]@TWC D-Link bookGeorge Washington CHAPTER XII 26/62
They were then in New Kent.
I told him I believed about the 20th of the month.
He made no reply. [Footnote 1: George Washington Parke Custis.] "About five o'clock Dr.Craik came again into the room, and upon going to the bedside the General said to him: 'Doctor, I die hard, but I am not afraid to go.
I believed, from my first attack, that I should not survive it.
My breath cannot last long.' The Doctor pressed his hand, but could not utter a word.
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