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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. 



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