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George Washington

CHAPTER XII
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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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