[The Crushed Flower and Other Stories by Leonid Andreyev]@TWC D-Link bookThe Crushed Flower and Other Stories CHAPTER VI 44/50
They prayed here a hundred years; now it is no good, they say.
Well, then, it is necessary to have a new one, a better one. But what shall it be ?" "'Pope's a rogue, Pope's a rogue.' But, then, I am a rogue, too.
Don't you think, Gart, that I am also something of a rogue? One moment, children, I am with you." There is some crowding in the doorway.
The abbot follows the last man with his eyes and roars angrily: "Eh, you, Haggart, murderer! What are you smiling at? You have no right to despise them like that.
They are my children.
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