They burned her tongue, moving it more powerfully and more freely.

She saw that the people were listening to her words.
All were silent.

She felt that they were thinking as they surrounded her closely; and the desire grew in her, now a clear desire, to drive these people to follow her son, to follow Andrey, to follow all those who had fallen into the soldiers' hands, all those who were left entirely alone, all those who were abandoned.

Looking at the sullen, attentive faces around her, she resumed with soft force: "Our children are going in the world toward happiness.

They went for the sake of all, and for Christ's truth--against all with which our malicious, false, avaricious ones have captured, tied, and crushed us.
My dear ones--why it is for you that our young blood rose--for all the people, for all the world, for all the workingmen, they went! Then don't go away from them, don't renounce, don't forsake them, don't leave your children on a lonely path--they went just for the purpose of showing you all the path to truth, to take all on that path! Pity yourselves! Love them! Understand the children's hearts.