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The Two Admirals

CHAPTER IX
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Is it not probable, now, that his recollection has returned to him suddenly, in consequence of this affection of the head?
I think I have read of some curious instances of these reviving memories, on a death-bed, or after a fit of sickness." "Ay, that you may have done!" exclaimed Sir Gervaise, smiling; "and poor, good Sir Wycherly, must have begun afresh, at the very place where he left off.

But here is Atwood, again." After a short consultation, the three chosen witnesses returned to the bed-side, the admiral being spokesman.
"The express will be off in ten minutes.

Sir Wycherly," he said; "and you may hope to see your relative, in the course of the next two or three days." "Too late--too late," murmured the patient, who had an inward consciousness of his true situation; "too late--turn the will round--Sir Reginald, Tom;--Tom, Sir Reginald.

Turn the will round." "Turn the will round!--this is very explicit, gentlemen, to those who can understand it.

Sir Reginald, Tom;--Tom, Sir Reginald.


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