The Crushed Flower and Other Stories by Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev
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"True!" "You, too, priest!" says Khorre, gruffly. Haggart looks with a faint smile at his angry, bristled face, and says: "I rather feel like sending him away. Let him go." "Well, then, Abbot," says Desfoso, turning around, "we have decided, in accordance with our conscience--to take the money. Do I speak properly?" One voice answers for all: "Yes." DESFOSO--Well, sailor, where is the money? KHORRE--Captain? HAGGART--Give it to them. KHORRE (rudely)--Then give me back my knife and my pipe first! Who is the eldest among you--you? Listen, then: Take crowbars and shovels and go to the castle. Do you know the tower, the accursed tower that fell? Go over there--" He bends down and draws a map on the floor with his crooked finger. All bend down and look attentively; only the abbot gazes sternly out of the window, behind which the heavy fog is still grey. Haggart |
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