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Someone pulled at his sleeve. "Well, well," said this someone, "we mustn't sleep any more, eh? " Prokop opened his eyes and saw an old gentleman with a pink-bald head and a white beard, gold spectacles up on his forehead, and an extraordinarily bright look in his eyes. "No more sleep, my friend," he said. "You've done that long enough; you don't want to wake up in the next world."
Prokop looked darkly at the old gentleman; he wanted to dream on a little longer. "What do you want? " he said finally in an irritated tone. "And. with whom have I the honour? ."