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The Crushed Flower and Other Stories

CHAPTER VI
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Oh, she is doing it well! And he laughs bitterly.
MARIET--Forgive me, Gart.
HAGGART--When I wanted to kill him, she hung on my hand like a rock, and now she says that she killed him.

She steals from me this murder; she does not know that one has to earn that, too! Oh, there are queer people in your land! "I wanted to deceive them, not you, Gart.

I wanted to save you," says Mariet.
Haggart replies: "My father taught me: 'Eh, Noni, beware! There is one truth and one law for all--for the sun, for the wind, for the waves, for the beasts--and only for man there is another truth.

Beware of this truth of man, Noni!' so said my father.

Perhaps this is your truth?
Then I am not afraid of it, but I feel very sad and very embittered.


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