9/21 When are we going to have mothers who will rejoice in sending their children even to death ?" "Hopp! Hopp!" mumbled the Little Russian. "How you gallop away!" "Why; do I say anything to you ?" the mother repeated. And if I'm sorry for you--well, that's a mother's way." Pavel drew away from her, and she heard his sharp, harsh words: "There is a love that interferes with a man's very life." She began to tremble, and fearing that he might deal another blow at her heart by saying something stern, she rejoined quickly: "Don't, Pasha! Why should you? You can't act otherwise, you must do it for your comrades." "No!" he replied. |