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  CONFESSIONS - BOOK IX - CHAPTER XI
  by St. Augustine
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27. I do not well remember what reply I made to her about this. However,
it was scarcely five days later--certainly not much more--that she was
prostrated by fever. While she was sick, she fainted one day and was for
a short time quite unconscious. We hurried to her, and when she soon
regained her senses, she looked at me and my brother[301] as we stood by
her, and said, in inquiry, \"Where was I?\" Then looking intently at us,
dumb in our grief, she said, \"Here in this place shall you bury your
mother.\" I was silent and held back my tears; but my brother said
something, wishing her the happier lot of dying in her own country and
not abroad. When she heard this, she fixed him with her eye and an
anxious countenance, because he savored of such earthly concerns, and
then gazing at me she said, \"See how he speaks.\" Soon after, she said
to us both: \"Lay this body anywhere, and do not let the care of it be a
trouble to you at all. Only this I ask: that you will remember me at the
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