turned with contempt towards the gazing crowd in the street. What he

thought was sufficiently expressed in his features and movements:

"Miserable beggars, who are looking in, you are nothing in

comparison to me."

"Pride," said the dead woman; "do you see him?"

"The footman?" asked the pastor. "He is but a poor fool, and not

doomed to be tortured eternally by fire!"

"Only a fool!" It sounded through the whole house of pride: they

were all fools there.

Then they flew within the four naked walls of the miser. Lean as a

skeleton, trembling with cold, and hunger, the old man was clinging

with all his thoughts to his money. They saw him jump up feverishly

from his miserable couch and take a loose stone out of the wall; there

lay gold coins in an old stocking. They saw him anxiously feeling over an old ragged coat in which pieces of gold were sewn, and his clammy fingers trembled.

"He is ill! That is madness- a joyless madness- besieged by fear

and dreadful dreams!"

They quickly went away and came before the beds of the

criminals; these unfortunate people slept side by side, in long

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rows. Like a ferocious animal, one of them rose out of his sleep and

uttered a horrible cry, and gave his comrade a violent dig in the ribs

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