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`` I have just enough strength , I think , to last till to-morrow night , '' he said philosophically . `` To-morrow night the death agony will begin ; poor Schmucke ! As soon as the notary and your two friends are gone , go for our good Abbe Duplanty , the curate of Saint-Francois . Good man , he does not know that I am ill , and I wish to take the holy sacrament to-morrow at noon . '' There was a long pause . `` God so willed it that life has not been as I dreamed , '' Pons resumed . `` I should so have loved wife and children and home ... .