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"Who was he?" "He was impaled on a stake in the time of Peter." "I know, I know! He lay there fifteen hours in the hard frost, and died with the most extraordinary fortitude I know what of him?" "Only that God gives that sort of dying to some, and not to others. Perhaps you think, though, that I could not die like Gleboff?" "Not at all!" said the prince, blushing.
But he goes further, he actually pitches into me because, as he declares, 'any decent fellow' would die quietly, and that 'all this' is mere egotism on my part. He doesn't see what refinement of egotism it is on his own part and at the same time, what ox-like coarseness! Have you ever read of the death of one Stepan Gleboff, in the eighteenth century? I read of it yesterday by chance."
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