Death of Tom Gradgrind Jr.
A lonely brother, many thousands of miles away, writing, on paper blotted
with tears, that her words had too soon come true, and that all the
treasures in the world would be cheaply bartered for a sight of her dear
face? At length this brother coming nearer home, with hope of seeing her,
and being delayed by illness; and then a letter, in a strange hand, saying
"he died in hospital, of fever, such a day, and died in penitence and love
of you: his last word being your name"?
Charles Dickens, Hard Times