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an only son ; poor people ! '' They stood there thunderstruck , chilled and trembling . They had simply heard that the young man was poorly ; they had not imagined him to be seriously ill . `` Let me go to dress , '' said Mathieu ; `` I shall take the quarter-past ten o'clock train . I must go to kiss them . '' Although Marianne was expecting her eleventh child before long , she decided to accompany her husband . It would have pained her to be unable to give this proof of affection to her cousins , who , all things considered , had treated Blaise and his young wife very kindly .