5:44
But if you want to borrow it before it is your own , the white mother will please lend it to you , so you always give it back , and do not lose the letters and the pieces of my hairs that will be in it . I did not learn all of Helen 's verses for the King 's Daughters ' meeting , for I got too sick to study , and my memory feels so queer . I have put a cross behind the ones I learned , and , dear Cordelia , wilt you try to learn them , too , and all the rest that Helen marked ? The one I tried to think of most is St. Matthew , chapter 5:44 . `` Good-by , dear sister , for I can not live much longer , I am so pained with the hard coughing all the time . These words I write so you will not forget me . I wish to see my father and my mother and my little sister very much .