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The Crushed Flower and Other Stories

CHAPTER VI
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Isn't it true that it is time to go to sleep?
MARIET (softly)--Sit down, Gart.

You are tired to-night.

You don't answer?
An old fisherman says: "There used to be a custom in our land, I heard, that a murderer was to pay a fine for the man he killed.

Have you heard about it, Desfoso ?" Another voice is heard: "Philipp is dead.

Philipp is dead already, do you hear, neighbour?
Who is going to support his mother ?" "I haven't enough even for my own! And the fog is rising, neighbour." "Abbot, did you hear us say: 'Gart is a bad man; Gart is a good-for-nothing, a city trickster ?' No, we said: 'This thing has never happened here before,'" says Desfoso.
Then a determined voice remarks: "Gart is a good man! Wild Gart is a good man!" DESFOSO--If you looked around, abbot, you couldn't find a single, strong boat here.


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