You know it! But were he alive, I myself would have sent him into the lines of those--along with them.

I myself would have told him: 'Go you, too, Matvey! That's the right cause, that's the honest cause!'" He stopped abruptly, and a sullen silence fell on all, in the powerful grip of something huge and new, but something that no longer frightened them.

Sizov lifted his hand, shook it, and continued: "It's an old man who is speaking to you.

You know me! I've been working here thirty-nine years, and I've been alive fifty-three years.
To-day they've arrested my nephew, a pure and intelligent boy.

He, too, was in the front, side by side with Vlasov; right at the banner." Sizov made a motion with his hand, shrank together, and said as he took the mother's hand: "This woman spoke the truth.