As I entered on tiptoe, I heard--

". . . in that kingdom shall be no weeping--"

"Oh, Parson," interrupted Fortunio, "that's bad. I'm so bored with

laughing that the good God might surely allow a few tears."

The parish buried him, and his books went to pay for the funeral.

But I kept the Virgil; and this, with the few memories that I impart

to you, is all that remains to me of Fortunio.

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