Yes; you have been drinking--all the winter.

Ah! is not that so, little father?
Your parents were serfs before the freedom." "Freedom!" growled the man.

"A pretty freedom! We were better off before." "Yes; but the world interfered with serfdom, because it got its necessary touch of sentiment.

There is no sentiment in starvation." The man did not understand.

He grunted acquiescence nevertheless.