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April 1.
‘T is over. Life is ended. I really shall die to-day. It is hot out of doors … almost stifling …. or is it that my chest is already refusing to breathe? My little comedy has been played through. The curtain is falling.
In becoming annihilated, I shall cease to be superfluous…
Akh, how brilliant that sun is! Those powerful rays exhale eternity…
Farewell, Teréntievna!… This morning, as she sat by the window, she fell to weeping …. perhaps over me … and perhaps, because she herself must die before long also. I made her promise “not to hurt” Trésor.
It is difficult for me to write…. I drop my pen… ‘T is time! Death is already drawing near with increasing rumble, like a carriage by night on the pavement: it is here, it is hovering around me, like that faint breath which made the hair of the prophet stand upright on his head…
I am dying… Live on, ye living.
And may the young life playAt the entrance of the grave,And Nature the indifferentWith beauty beam forever!
Note of the Editor.—Under this last line there is the profile of a head with a large crest-curl and moustache, with eyes en face, and ray-like eyelashes; and under the head some one has written the following words:
The abov manuscript has been read
And the Contints Thereof Bin Approved
By Pyetr Zudotyéshin
M M M M
Dear Sir
Pyetr Zudotyéshin.
My Dear Sir.
But as the chirography of these lines does not in the least agree with the chirography in which the remainder of the note-book is written, the editor considers himself justified in concluding that the above-mentioned lines were added afterward by another person; the more so, as it has come to his (the editor’s) knowledge that Mr. Tchulkatúrin really did die on the night of April 1-2, 18.., in his natal estate—Ovétchi Vódy.
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