Pierre Auguste Renoir Girls at The Piano

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Death laid a hand on Mort's shoulder.
WHAT YOUR FATHER SEES AND HEARS IS NOT WHAT YOU SEE AND HEAR, he said. DO NOT WORRY HIM. DO YOU and fascinating and not entirely horrible, and that if he let this moment go he'd spend the rest of his it. And he remembered the humiliations of the day, and the long walk 'Er,' he began, 'I don't have to die to get the job, do I?'
BEING DEAD IS NOT COMPULSORY.
'And . . . the bones . . .?'THINK HE WOULD WANT TO SEE ME – IN THE FLESH, AS IT WERE?'But you're Death,' said Mort. 'You go around killing people!'I? KILL? said Death, obviously offended. CERTAINLY NOT. PEOPLE GET KILLED, BUT THAT'S THEIR TAKE OVER FROM THEN ON. AFTER ALL, IT'D BE A BLOODY STUPID WORLD IF PEOPLE GOT KILLED WITHOUT DYING, WOULDN'T IT?'Well, yes —' said Mort, doubtfully.Mort had never heard the word 'intrigued'. It was not in regular use in the family vocabulary. But a spark in his soul told him that here was something weird