LEARNING HARMONICA: beard outlined the lower part of the face, and on the shaved side of the head a firm, well-shaped car was visible. One could see what possibilities of a higher life had been destroyed in this man. The fine bones of his hands and shackled feet, the strong muscles of all his well-proportioned limbs, showed what a beautiful, strong, agile human animal this had been. As an animal merely he had been a far more perfect one of his kind than the bay stallion, about the laming of which the fireman was so angry. Yet he had been done to death,LEARNING HARMONICA: and no one was sorry for him as a man, nor was any one sorry that so fine a working animal had perished. The only feeling evinced was that of annoyance because of the bother caused by the necessity of getting this body, threatening putrefaction, out of the way. The doctor and his assistant entered the hospital, accompanied by the inspector of the police station. The doctor was a thick-set man, dressed in pongee silk coat and trousers of the same material, closely fitting his muscular thighs. The inspector was a little fat fellow, with a red face, round as a
LEARNING HARMONICA: ball, which he made still broader by a habit he had of filling his cheeks with air, and slowly letting it out again. The doctor sat down on the bed by the side of the dead man, and touched the hands in the same way as his assistant had done, put his ear to the heart, rose, and pulled his trousers straight. "Could not be more dead," he said. The inspector filled his mouth with air and slowly blew it out again. "Which prison is he from?" he asked the convoy soldier. The soldier told him, and reminded him of the
LEARNING HARMONICA: chains on the dead man's feet. "I'll have them taken off; we have got a smith about, the Lord be thanked," said the inspector, and blew up his cheeks again; he went towards the door, slowly letting out the air. "Why has this happened?" Nekhludoff asked the doctor. The doctor looked at him through his spectacles. "Why has what happened? Why they die of sunstroke, you mean? This is why: They sit all through the winter without exercise and without light, and suddenly they are taken out into the sunshine, and on a day like this, and they march in a
LEARNING HARMONICA: crowd so that they get no air, and sunstroke is the result." "Then why are they sent out?" "Oh, as to that, go and ask those who send them. But may I ask who are you?" "I am a stranger." "Ah, well, good-afternoon; I have no time." The doctor was vexed; he gave his trousers a downward pull, and went towards the beds of the sick. "Well, how are you getting on?" he asked the pale man with the crooked mouth and bandaged neck. Meanwhile the madman sat on a bed, and having finished his cigarette, kept spitting in the direction
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