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One eye was blind for ever. The other might be saved with care, the doctor said.
Blindfolded in his bandages, Cabell lay and longed for utter darkness--such a darkness as would be if no sun or moon or stars had ever been created and no living thing with memories, thoughts and regrets. What an agony if a man were to die and his brain go on dreaming of inaccessible hopes by the mere chemical action of undecomposed cells! Just so, to Cabell, it seemed to have happened.