"We have always known," said Miss Martha, with a little sigh,
"that we must die, and that he must get married. But we don't
intend to repine. These things will come to people." And her
little sigh was followed by a smile, still smaller.
The Project Gutenberg Etext of The Magic Egg and Other Stories
by Frank Stockton, author of "The Lady or the Tiger"
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