How beautiful it must have looked when such a woodpile was blazing on the water in the dark night! Eh?
It was an enormous steamer." "Weren't you sorry for that either ?" "For the steamer?
It is true, I did feel sorry for the steamer.

But then it is mere foolishness to feel sorry! What's the use?
I might have cried; tears cannot extinguish fire.

Let the steamers burn.

And even though everything be burned down, I'd spit upon it! If the soul is but burning to work, everything will be erected anew.

Isn't it so ?" "Yes," said Mayakin, smiling.