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 born kinsman comes to carry you away—but I shiver at the possibility. Will a high-born kinsman come to carry you away—shall you be shut into a gray stone sepulcher?"

"No kinsman, high- or low-born, is coming to carry me away," said my friend Annabel Lee. "Kinsmen do not carry away things that have no intrinsic value."

"No, I believe they don't," said I, and felt relieved.

I repeated:

But no," said I; "the angels in heaven are surely more than half so happy as you and I."

"More than half," said my friend Anna-