"We are accustomed to examine the nations of the past, to dissect them fibre by fibre, so that we recognize at a glance the psychology of the living." The Bohemian fancied that he saw a surgeon talking self-sufficiently about the mysteries of the will before a corpse.

What did this pedantic interpreter of dead documents know about life?
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When the door closed, he approached his friend who was returning somewhat dismayed.

Argensola no longer considered Doctor Julius von Hartrott crazy.
"What a brute!" he exclaimed, throwing up his hands.