[Foma Gordyeff by Maxim Gorky]@TWC D-Link bookFoma Gordyeff CHAPTER III 66/119
Here I recalled myself, and though I cried, yet my heart blazed up at the very recollection of my past life.
And again I was young, as though I drank of the water of life! My sweet child I'll have a good time with you, if I please you, we'll enjoy ourselves as much as we can.
Eh! I'll burn to ashes, now that I have blazed up!" And pressing the youth close to herself, she greedily began to kiss him on the lips. "Lo-o-ok o-u-u-u-t!" the watch on the barge wailed mournfully, and, cutting short the last syllable, began to strike his mallet against the cast-iron board. The shrill, trembling sounds harshly broke the solemn quiet of the night. A few days later, when the barges had discharged their cargo and the steamer was ready to leave for Perm, Yefim noticed, to his great sorrow, that a cart came up to the shore and that the dark-eyed Pelageya, with a trunk and with some bundles, was in it. "Send a sailor to bring her things," ordered Foma, nodding his head toward the shore. With a reproachful shake of his head, Yefim carried out the order angrily, and then asked in a lowered voice: "So she, too, is coming with us ?" "She is going with me," Foma announced shortly. "It is understood.
Not with all of us.
Oh, Lord!" "Why are you sighing ?" "Yes.
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