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THE MAKROPOULOS SECRET

Thank you, I don’t want it, either.

No? Then you, Max. You like to live. You will be able to love, see? Take it.

Please—can one die of it? And does it hurt to take it?

Yes, it hurts. Are you afraid?

Yes.

But you will live for three hundred years.

If—if it didn’t hurt—Hihi, I don’t want it.

Doctor, you are a crafty man. Do you want it?

You are very kind, but I won’t have anything to do with it.

You are so ridiculous; Vitek, I’ll give it to you. You’ll probably benefit all humanity with it.

No, please. I think I’d—rather not.