He had been sleepless and talkative , telling me many things about his life . Finally he told me of Margaret . I knew a little about her ... that she had been his sweetheart and had died very young . Mr. Lawrence had remained true to her memory ever since , but I had never heard him speak of her before . `` She was very beautiful , '' he said dreamily , `` and she was only eighteen when she died , Jeanette . She had wonderful pale-golden hair and dark-brown eyes . I have a little ivory miniature of her . When I die it is to be given to you , Jeanette . I have waited a long while for her . You know she promised she would come . '' I did not understand his meaning and kept silence , thinking that he might be wandering a little in his mind . `` She promised she would come and she will keep her word , '' he went on . `` I was with her when she died . I held her in my arms . She said to me , ` Herbert , I promise that I will be true to you forever , through as many years of lonely heaven as I must know before you come . And when your time is at hand I will come to make your deathbed easy as you have made mine . I will come , Herbert . ' She solemnly promised , Jeanette . We made a death-tryst of it . And I know she will come . ''
He had fallen asleep then and after his recovery he had not alluded XXXXX the matter again .
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