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A flock of doves which had been flying around the belfry alighted in the street before the house.

two other men in dark coats with silver buttons carried a bier, on which, beneath a great flower-patterned fringe silk cloth, a man was apparently dying

Not even in his gait can he manage to belie his mother

One evening Blumfield, an elderly bachelor, was climbing up to his apartment--a laborious undertaking, for he lived on the sixth floor. While climbing up he thought, as he had so often recently, how unpleasant this utterly lonely life was: to reach his empty rooms he had to climb these six floors a…