[The Dark Forest by Hugh Walpole]@TWC D-Link bookThe Dark Forest CHAPTER III 8/91
I say to myself that one is at the war and that one must be frightened at nothing, and still I remain frightened....
Frightened of what ?...
I really cannot tell you. Death, perhaps? But no, I should not be sorry to die--there are reasons.... "And yet although I should not be sorry to die, I remain frightened--all night I was awake--I do my utmost to control it, but there is something stronger than I--something.
I feel as though if I once discovered what that something was I should not be frightened any longer.
Something definite that you could meet and say to yourself: 'There, Andrey Vassilievitch, you're not frightened of _that_, are you? What is there to be frightened of ?...
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