[Mother by Maxim Gorky]@TWC D-Link bookMother CHAPTER XIX 13/15
"Well done, boys!" Apparently the man felt something vast, to which he could not give expression in ordinary words, so he uttered a stiff oath.
Yet the malice, the blind dark malice of a slave also streamed hotly through his teeth.
Disturbed by the light shed upon it, it hissed like a snake, writhing in venomous words. "Heretics!" a man with a broken voice shouted from a window, shaking his fist threateningly. A piercing scream importunately bored into the mother's ears--"Rioting against the emperor, against his Majesty the Czar? No, no ?" Agitated people flashed quickly past her, a dark lava stream of men and women, carried along by this song, which cleared every obstacle out of its path. Growing in the mother's breast was the mighty desire to shout to the crowd: "Oh, my dear people!" There, far away from her, was the red banner--she saw her son without seeing him--his bronzed forehead, his eyes burning with the bright fire of faith.
Now she was in the tail of the crowd among the people who walked without hurrying, indifferent, looking ahead with the cold curiosity of spectators who know beforehand how the show will end.
They spoke softly with confidence. "One company of infantry is near the school, and the other near the factory." "The governor has come." "Is that so ?" "I saw him myself.
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