Ebook The Works of Alexandre Dumas

During his long illness, which was simply a gradual de cay of physical and vital strength, I was one of his most constant visitors; and as, on account of his incessant labors, he had not had' the time to read my books relating to the epoch with which he was' so familiar, he sent for the seven or eight hundred volumes while he was ill and confined to his bed, and read them eagerly.