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Updated: May 4, 2025
Again he wiped his beard. Then he bent over the dead man once more, and kissed the corpse's forehead. "Good-bye, friend of mine!" he said. Then to myself he added with unlooked-for clarity and vigour: "My friend here was but a plain man a man as inconspicuous among his fellows as a rook among a flock of rooks. Yet no rook was he.
"And what of your wonderful interview with Surtur, and all the undone things which you set out to do?" "You aren't the one I shall speak to about that. But" he eyed her meditatively "while I'm still here you can tell me this. What's the meaning of the expression on that corpse's face?" "Is that another crime, Maskull? All dead people look like that. Ought they not to?"
Turning round, he perceived a man of short stature, in an old, worn uniform, and recognised, not without terror, Akaky Akakiyevich. The official's face was white as snow, and looked just like a corpse's.
Don't!" he said, and could not unclasp her fingers. "Calm yourself, I entreat you." She shut her eyes and turned pale, and her long nose became an unpleasant waxy colour like a corpse's, and Laptev still could not unclasp her fingers. She had fainted. He lifted her up carefully, laid her on her bed, and sat by her for ten minutes till she came to herself.
I saw his lips syllable "Good-by;" then, he leaned his head back gently, and, without a sigh or a shiver, the strong man's spirit went forth into The Night. A sense of utter desolation, as it were a horror of great darkness, gathered all around me as I leaned my forehead against the corpse's cheek, sobbing like a helpless child. You will not care to hear how we all mourned him.
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