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-- thou didst even touch and handle her ? '' `` Mother , I could not leave her alone to die . And hardly had the doctor gone than the fever came upon her , and it was all I could do to keep her from rushing out of the room in her pain . But it lasted only a brief while -- for the poison must have gotten a sore hold on her -- and just after noon she fell back in mine arms and died . `` O mother , I see her face now -- so livid and terrible to look upon ! O mother , mother , shall I too look like that when my turn comes to die ? '' `` Hush , hush , my child !