Secret Life, Volumes I. to III., by Anonymous
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Title: My Secret Life, Volumes I. to III. 1888 Edition
Author: Anonymous
Release Date: October 30, 2009 [EBook #30360]
Language: English
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MY SECRET LIFE
By An Anonymous Author
Amsterdam 1888
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INTRODUCTION
In 18-- my oldest friend died. We had been at school and college together, and our intimacy had never been broken. I was trustee for his wife and executor at his death. He died of a lingering illness, during which his hopes of living were alternately raised, and depressed. Two years before he died, he gave me a huge parcel carefully tied up and sealed. Take care of, but don't open this he said: if I get better, return it to me, if I die, let no mortal eye but yours see it, and burn it.
His widow died a year after him. I