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But, generally speaking, I have observed in such scenes some thing to mitigate, if not the sorrows, at least the terrors, of death; the dying man seldom seems to feel the reality of his situation; a dull consciousness of approaching dissolution, a dim anticipation of unconsciousness and insensibility, are the feelings which most nearly border upon an appreciation of his state; the film of death seems to have overspread the mind's eye, objects lose their distinctness, and float cloudily before it, and the apathy and apparent indifference with which men recognise the sure advances of immediate death, rob that awful hour of much of its terrors, and the death-bed of its otherwise inevitable agonies.
They laughed at the "culture craze" which, raging westward, had seized upon all the women of Saint X with incomes, or with husbands or fathers to support them in idleness the craze for thinking, reading, and talking cloudily or muddily on cloudy or muddy subjects.
Perhaps breakfast had sobered them, though the fumes of liquor still clung cloudily on the air. Lund went down, with Rainey beside him, reporting Sandy. "I'll work it out of 'em," said Lund. "That booze'll be an expensive luxury to 'em, paid for in hard labor." They found the men ranged up in three groups. Deming and Beale, against custom, had gone down to the beach.
But they could see nothing clearly, and knew not well where they were, for though day was dawning, it came cloudily and full of fog; had it been clear and under a pure sky, they might have seen the town of Mechlin, from which they were not more than two leagues distant. "Well, M. le Comte," said Remy, "what do you think of those fires?"
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