The Crushed Flower and Other Stories by Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev
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He drags him closer to the dark window of the church. Khorre mutters:
"How dark it is. If you raised me out of bed for this accursed music--" "Yes, yes; for this accursed music." "Then you have disturbed my honest sleep in vain; I want no music, Noni." "So! Was I perhaps to run through the street, knock at the windows and shout: 'Eh, who is there; where's a living soul? Come and help Haggart, stand up with him against the cannons.'" "You are confusing things, Noni. Drink some gin, my boy. What cannons?" "Silence, sailor." He drags him away from the window. "Oh, you shake me like a squall!" "Silence! I think he looked at us from the window; something white flashed behind the window pane. You may laugh. Khorre--if he came out now I would scream like a woman." He laughs softly. "Are you speaking of Dan? I don't understand anything, Noni." "But is that Dan? Of course it is not Dan--it is some one else. Give me your hand, sailor." |
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