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Since it was her wish , let us try and read them together , the last words of a saint -LRB- I have never seen them -RRB- , and , if they do not prove words of love , then I will let you think you were not a good brother to her you and I , and poor , poor Edward , have lost . '' He made a sad sign of assent ; and Julia rose and got the enclosure . But , as Jane 's last written words reappeared on the scene in a somewhat remarkable way , I will only say here , that both these poor young things tried in vain to read them , and both in turn burst out sobbing , so that they could not : so they held the paper and tried to see the words out of their streaming eyes . And these two mourners had the room to themselves till midnight ; for even Mrs. Dodd 's hostility respected Alfred then ; and as for Julia , she was one of those who rise with the occasion : she was half wife , half angel from Heaven to her bereaved lover through all those bitter hours . No life was ever yet a play : I mean , an unbroken sequence of dramatic incidents . Calms will come ; unfortunately for the readers , happily for the read . And I remember seeing it objected to novelists , by a young gentleman just putting his foot for the first time into `` Criticism , '' that the writers aforesaid suppress the small intermediate matters which in real life come by the score between each brilliant event : and so present the ordinary and the extraordinary parts of life in false proportions .