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From that moment there began the scream that never ceased for three days, and was so awful that through two closed doors one could not hear it without horror. At the moment when he answered his wife he grasped that he had fallen, that there was no return, that the end had come, quite the end, while doubt was still as unsolved, still remained doubt.
"Oo! Oo -- o! Oo! " he screamed in varying intonations. He had begun screaming, "I don't want to! " and so had gone on screaming on the same vowel sound -- oo!