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continues to sustain me in my heaviest trials. I must 

 take leave of you for to-day. The ranks are thinning 

 around me and the long hopes have fled. Shall I be 

 able to speak of you again ? * 



1 This forms the closing paragraph of Vol. Ill of the Souvenirs 

 entomologiques, of which the author lived to publish seven more 

 volumes, containing over 2,500 pages and nearly 850,000 words. 

 Translator's Note. 



