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burning with fever, and tottered to a bed from which he never got up. Even though he suffered the agonies of this deadly disease, his face was serene in death.
Henry Guyon died like the thousands who had been swept away in the epidemic, but his was a unique death; it had given a chance of life to those who were stricken with the plague. Men like him are honoured more in death than in life, for they leave a priceless legacy to all mankind.
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