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Updated: May 6, 2025
"I was going to leave you something, but I sha'n't now, 'cos you tried to read my death-letter before I was dead!" "Then I'll write a death-letter myself," retorted Selina, scenting an artistic vengeance: "and I sha'n't leave you a single thing!" And she went off in search of a pencil. The tempest within-doors had kept my attention off the condition of things without.
"I was going to leave you something, but I sha'n't now, 'cos you tried to read my death-letter before I was dead!" "Then I'II write a death-letter myself," retorted Selina, scenting an artistic vengeance: "and I sha'n't leave you a single thing!" And she went off in search of a pencil. The tempest within-doors had kept my attention off the condition of things without.
Yet this was the form taken by Harold's latest craze; and in justice this much had to be said for him, that in the christening of his amusement he had gone right to the heart of the matter. The words "will" and "testament" have various meanings and uses; but about the signification of "death-letter" there can be no manner of doubt. I smoothed out the crumpled paper and read.
Harold chuckled and crowed as he dropped from the table, revealing the document over which so many gathers had sighed their short lives out. "YOU can read it if you like," he said to me gratefully. "It's only a Death-letter." It had never been possible to say what Harold's particular amusement of the hour might turn out to be.
Yet this was the form taken by Harold's latest craze; and in justice this much had to be said for him, that in the christening of his amusement he had gone right to the heart of the matter. The words "will" and "testament" have various meanings and uses; but about the signification of "death-letter" there can be no manner of doubt. I smoothed out the crumpled paper and read.
Harold chuckled and crowed as he dropped from the table, revealing the document over which so many gathers had sighed their short lives out. "You can read it if you like," he said to me gratefully. "It's only a Death-letter." It had never been possible to say what Harold's particular amusement of the hour might turn out to be.
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