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Taras Bulba and Other Tales

CHAPTER VI
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No, you will not die, you shall not die! I swear by my birth and by all there is dear to me in the world that you shall not die.

But if it must be so; if nothing, neither strength, nor prayer, nor heroism, will avail to avert this cruel fate--then we will die together, and I will die first.

I will die before you, at your beauteous knees, and even in death they shall not divide us." "Deceive not yourself and me, noble sir," she said, gently shaking her beautiful head; "I know, and to my great sorrow I know but too well, that it is impossible for you to love me.

I know what your duty is, and your faith.

Your father calls you, your comrades, your country, and we are your enemies." "And what are my father, my comrades, my country to me ?" said Andrii, with a quick movement of his head, and straightening up his figure like a poplar beside the river.


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