Chapter 19 nineteen

nineteen The next morning, he had a headache and tinnitus, and he felt paralyzed all over.He was not ashamed to think of his weakness yesterday.Yesterday he was timid, even afraid of seeing the moon, and sincerely expressed his unexpected thoughts and feelings before, such as the thoughts that a small person will inevitably talk about when he is dissatisfied.But now he felt that everything didn't matter. He neither ate nor drank, lay still, and said nothing. "I don't care anymore," he thought when someone spoke to him, "I don't want to answer... I don't care anymore"

After lunch Mikhail Averyanitch came with a quarter of a russian of tea and a pound of fruit jelly.Daryushka came several times, with a sad look on his dull face, and stood by the bed for an hour.Hobotov also came to visit him, brought a bottle of potassium bromide, and ordered Nikita to burn something to fumigate the ward. ① One Russian pound is equal to 409.5 grams. In the evening Andrey Yefimitch died of a cerebral haemorrhage.At first he felt a violent shudder and nausea, which seemed to permeate his whole body, down to his fingers, from his stomach to his head, into his eyes and ears.Things turn green.Andrey Yefimitch realized that his death was imminent, and it occurred to him that Ivan Dmitry, Mikhail Averyanitch, and thousands of others believed in immortality.What if this is possible?However, he didn't want to live forever, and his thought was only fleeting.A herd of deer of extraordinary grace and beauty which he had read yesterday was running past him, and then a peasant woman held out her hand with a registered letter to him... Mihail Avelliani Qi said something.Then everything disappeared, and Andrey Yefimitch lost consciousness forever.

The orderly came, took him by the arms and legs, and carried him into the chapel.There he lay on the table, his eyes closed, and the moonlight shone on him at night.In the morning Sergey Sergeich came, said a prayer before the crucifix, and closed the eyes of his former superior. Andrey Yefimitch was buried the next day.The only mourners were Mikhail Averyanitch and Daryushka. November 1892