Cyrus Harding and his companions remained for a time silent, for they were vividly impressed by what they had just seen and heard, and their hearts were deeply touched by the thought that he whose arm had so often aided them, the protector whom they had known but a few hours, was at the point of death. Whatever might be the judgment pronounced by posterity upon the events of this, so to speak, extra-human existence, the character of Prince Dakkar would ever remain as one of those whose memory time can never efface.
Cualquiera que fuese el juicio que la posteridad pronunciara sobre los actos de aquella existencia, por decirlo así, extrahumana, el príncipe Dakkar sería siempre para ellos una de esas fisonomías extrañas, cuyo recuerdo no se puede borrar.