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`` Gabriel ! '' murmured Rodin , with failing voice ; `` forgive me for the evil I have done you -- do not leave me -- do not -- '' Rodin could not finish ; he had succeeded in raising himself into a sitting posture ; he now uttered a loud cry , and fell back without sense or motion . The same day it was announced in the evening papers : `` The cholera has broken out in Paris . The first case declared itself this day , at half past three , P.M. in the Rue de Babylone , at Saint-Dizier House . '' A week had passed since Rodin was seized with the cholera , and its ravages had continually increased . That was an awful time ! A funeral pall was spread over Paris , once so gay .