I felt only the cold, heavy oppression at my heart, and I had, I remember, no curiosity as to what had occurred.

We passed through passages that were strangely dark, in a silence that was weighted and mysterious.

We entered the room where we had been earlier in the afternoon; it seemed now to be full of people, I saw now quite clearly, although just before the whole world had seemed to be dark.

I saw our two soldiers standing back by the door; a doctor, whose face I did not know, a very corpulent man, was on his knees on the floor--some sanitars were in a group by the window.

In the middle of the room lay Marie Ivanovna on a stretcher.