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The next day, Monday, the 8th of April, the weather was very fine. I found the Doctor on deck basking in the sun. He came up to me. "Ah well! " said he, "our poor sufferer died in the night. The doctor never gave him up-oh, those doctors! they never will give in. This is the fourth man we have lost since we left Liverpool, the fourth gone towards paying the ‘Great Eastern's' debt, and we are not at the end of our voyage yet."
"Poor fellow," said I, "just as we are nearing port, and the American coast almost in sight. What will become of his widow and little children?"