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The Crushed Flower and Other Stories

CHAPTER III
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They sounded so cheerful, so resonant, as in a forest, as on a river when you are mending a boat or building a dam.

And in the presentiment of cheerful, harmonious work, I firmly embraced my wife, while she looked above the houses, above the roofs, looked at the young crescent of the moon, which was already setting.

The moon was so young, so strange, even as a young girl who is dreaming and is afraid to tell her dreams; and it was shining only for itself.
"When will we have a full moon ?..." "You must not! You must not!" my wife interrupted.

"You must not speak of that which will be.

What for?
IT is afraid of words.


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