Let it go, Mariet." "Don't speak, Haggart! I know everything.

It was not as though I came along a fiery road, it was not as though I saw blood to-day.

Be silent, Haggart! I have seen something more terrible, Haggart! Oh, if you could only understand me! I have seen cowardly people who ran without defending themselves.

I have seen clutching, greedy fingers, crooked like those of birds, like those of birds, Haggart! And out of these fingers, which were forced open, gold was taken.

And suddenly I saw a man sobbing.