Then the judge, still kneeling, his head buried in the bed clothes, cried in a voice altered by grief and
dead-ened by the sheets and blankets: "Mamma, mamma, mamma!" And his sister, frantically
striking her forehead against the woodwork, convulsed, twitching and trem-bling as in an epileptic
fit, moaned: "Jesus, Jesus, mamma, Jesus!" And both of them, shaken by a storm of grief, gasped
and choked.