There will be no scandal, dear,
and if any word should be raised against you after I am gone, I have
provided an answer in the second letter which I have inclosed. You can
print it if necessary; it will be a sufficient reply to any talk. Nobody
after reading it can believe that you were in any way connected with the
accident which will happen. Dear, one word more--still about myself, you
see! Do not blame yourself in this matter, for you are not to blame; of
my own free will I do it, because in the extremity of the circumstances
I think it best that one should go and the other be saved, rather than
that both should be involved in a common ruin.
"Dear, do you remember how in that strange vision of mine, I dreamed
that you came and touched me on the breast and showed me light? So it
has come to pass, for you have given me love--that is light; and now in
death I shall seek for wisdom. And this being fulfilled, shall not the
rest be fulfilled in its season? Shall I not sit in those cloudy halls
till I see you come to seek me, the word of wisdom on your lips? And
since I cannot have you to myself, and be all in all to you, why I am
glad to go.
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