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The Crushed Flower and Other Stories by Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev
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whispers in a fit of rage:

"Mariet, it would have been better if you had killed me as I killed
Philipp. And now my father is calling me. Where will be the end of
my sorrow, Mariet? Where the end of the world is. And where is the
end of the world? Do you want to take my sorrow, Mariet?"

"I do, Haggart."

"No, you are a woman."

"Why do you torture me, Gart? What have I done that you should
torture me so? I love you."

"You lied."

"My tongue lied. I love you."

"A serpent has a double tongue, but ask the serpent what it wants--
and it will tell you the truth. It is your heart that lied. Was it
not you, girl, that I met that time on the road? And you said:
'Good evening.' How you have deceived me!"

Desfoso asks loudly:

"Well, abbot? You are coming along with us, aren't you, father.
Otherwise something wrong might come out of it. Do I speak properly?"

The abbot replies merrily:

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