“His wife had held him in her arms as if she could keep death away from him.
He had cried out, "My God, I am a dead man!"”

Source: The Riverworld series, To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971), Chapter 1 (p. 1; First lines, depicting the death of Sir Richard Francis Burton).

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