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Hardcover
First published January 1, 1936
“In death” is the usual term, but it did not actually take place in death, rather in that time and space which intervene between dying and death itself. For that there is such an interval, many people consider quite certain. According to some it lasts only a few moments; according to others, several days – nine in extreme cases.
In a few moments, we reached the dirt ramp that led up to the bridge. I saw three or four dragoons vanish from their saddles as if blown away, and several horses also turned head over heels. Snow, stones, and lumps of ice whirled upward and hit me.
Meanwhile, from the carriage next to which she had been standing, a girl or a young lady in a bearskin coat came up to my horse and asked: “Baron Bagge?” I had no chance to get a closer look at her, for as I bent down courteously to her, to say that I was, her face suddenly moved close to mine; for a moment I looked into wonderful eyes, and then her arms were already around my neck and my mouth was closed by a kiss.