eight in the morning
Better death than penury and such insults . '' And she fell into gloomy thought . That gesture of displeasure at the sight of his wife was the last conscious act of Iuri Pavlovitch Nazimoff . At eight in the morning he lost consciousness , in the midst of violent suffering , which lasted until the end . By the early afternoon he was no more . During the last hour of his agony his wife knelt beside his couch without let or hindrance , and wept inconsolably . The formidable aristocrat and millionaire was dead .