Book: The gentleman from San Francisco

People and still more wonder at and never want to believe death.

And he still fought. He persistently fought to death, never wanted to succumb to her so suddenly and roughly pulled hard on him.

Beautiful was the delicate, complex feelings that awakened in her encounter with the ugly man in whom flowed the blood unusual, because after all, in the end, no matter what awakens a maiden's soul, - whether money, whether fame, nobility kind of...

Until then he had not lived, but merely existed, though very bad, but still pinning all hopes for the future.