Death Comes for the Archbishop

In his last moments, Jean-Marie Latour is attended by the Mother Superior, Bernard, and Magdalena. They can tell he's barely speaking, but they cannot hear the words. Where has he gone in his mind, and to whom is he speaking?

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But in reality the Bishop was not there at all; he was standing in a tip-tilted green field among his native mountains, and he was trying to give consolation to a young man who was being torn in two before his eyes by the desire to go and the necessity to stay. He was trying to forge a new Will in that devout and exhausted priest; and the time was short, for the diligence for Paris was already rumbling down the mountain gorge.
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Death Comes for the Archbishop