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That is what I expect dying to be like . `` I was going to say that I try not to let even little things -- things that are thrust in my way curiously and without apparent reason that is -- go uninterpreted . Why should I , for instance , have been introduced by my clergyman to the friend who was staying with him this morning , when I met them in the lane ? and why should he have come in to lunch , and talked dull and trivial talk till three o'clock , and interrupted all our plans ? There seems some design in it all ; and yet one is so impotent to grasp what it can be . `` Yet I suppose no one has failed to notice several small coincidences in their lives , of what might almost be called a providential kind . `` I read in a book about Laennec 's method , without the vaguest idea of who Laennec was , or what his method was .