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daughter of M. and Mme. Vallery-Radot, he 

 took them in his arms and kissed them linger- 

 ingly, while heavy tears rolled slowly clown the 

 length of his pain-racked face. When the 

 startled children questioned him, the great man 

 answered sorrowfully: 



"I am weeping, my children, because I am 

 so soon to leave you." 



It was during the afternoon of Wednesday, 

 September 27, that the Cure of Garches was 

 summoned to the side of Pasteur, whose end 

 was felt to be very near. He received extreme 

 unction, after having made confession to R. P. 

 Boulanger, of the Dominican order. He died 

 the following morning at twenty minutes to 

 five after a brief agony. 



It was a universal calamity. Telegrams 

 poured into the Institute, and there is one of 

 them which must be cited in full, and which 

 came from the establishment in Berlin directed 

 by Dr. Koch, who had so often had occasion 

 to combat him : 



"Profoundly moved by the loss which is uni- 



