[BNP/E3, 27²¹L⁴ – 18]

Nabos at a death-bed. All weeping, etc…

“Where there is life, there is hope of living.”

I looked up astonished at the Dr. to see if this stupendous piece of nonsense had provoked any alteration in his countenance, as he pronounced it, but his face was set and sad and his glance, as he met mine, unassumed and concerned. I felt a hysterical desire to burst at laughing but restrained it.

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“It’s a nice and a glorious thing to have been at a shipwreck or at[1] a battle; the worst is that you must be there[2] to have been there” Dr. Nabos.

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[1] at ^/in\

[2] be there ^{/have been there\}