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The Dark Forest

CHAPTER III
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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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