[The Crushed Flower and Other Stories by Leonid Andreyev]@TWC D-Link bookThe Crushed Flower and Other Stories CHAPTER VI 30/50
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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