Show Victor Hugos Last Days A Paris letter to the Courier dcx Elats Im describes the scenes Victor Hugos liedside during his illness On Holy Thursday several guests including M doLe do-Le = dined at Hugos house and the poet was in high spirits and gave no token of approaching illness In the I middle of the following night he was filled with some trouble of the heart ultich rapidly developed into the malady i that ended his life In a few days ho became convinced that he could not I recover and to those who spoke to him encouragingly of his condition he replied 1 Xoit is the end I feel that I am pngtodie On the morning of May 19th three I days before his death Mine Lockroy asked him How do you feel father Well very well he replied It is death it is welcome Then to M Lockroy he said My Wend f it is a dying man who speaks to jou 3 He added an instant later Death is very long it is too long In the course of the preceding night oaring a moment of delirium he pronounced I pro-nounced in a loud voice this line I I Ccu ici le combat du jour et do la nuit Then he talked of his grandchildren I Between his fits of delirium he talked freely with the members of his family One day he seemed buried in recollections I OI his youth j then he talked rationally Jjrth the bystanders and suddenly in time midst of the talking he began to recite verses of a Spanish poet He had awavs had a liking for Spain in which country he passed part of his childhood As soon as the attacks passed he would resume his cheerful mood |