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Except for his master, he showed no affection for anyone and accepted no favours perhaps he had no belief in them, and only responded to a caress with a low growl. Some weeks passed and Kowalski was no better, on the contrary he seemed to get worse with every day, and we were all convinced that this illness was his last.
He opened his mouth, but he felt he had said too much, or that I was listening with curiosity; enough he only uttered a long-drawn 'Oh... and was silent again. This was the only allusion Kowalski ever made to his past.
Kowalski stopped; only his brow, which was alternately contracted and smoothed, showed that the dying man was trying with his last remnant of strength to collect his thoughts and to retain the last spark of life. It was early morning, and the sun threw two great sheaves of golden rays through the window on to the wall where the bed stood.
Napoleon had gone ahead toward France. After Moscow he took a sledge, and sped away across the snow-covered wastes of Poland, on his solitary journey to Paris. There is a painting of this scene by the Slavic artist Kowalski, which represents the three black horses abreast, galloping with all speed with the Emperor's sledge across the cheerless world which he traversed.
The locksmith went up to the bed, put his hand under the bedclothes and touched his feet; they were cold. But Kowalski called out loudly and emphatically as I had never heard him before: 'I am alive! I am glad that you have come, for I should like to speak to you of death.
'Is he so very bad? I asked on the way. 'I should think so; he looks quite black and says himself that he is sure he will die to-day. We soon arrived at Kowalski's yurta. There was no trace of the usual sick-room smell of medicines, for Kowalski believed neither in doctors nor in medicines. But an air of sadness and desolation pervaded the room.
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