12/83 He is lost to me! A galley-slave--is that my son? He would not speak to his father, and--he stumbled." "What did he do ?" asked Lubov, eagerly listening to the old man's words. Into the desert! Into the isolated places--march! Come, now, my wise fellows, arrange life there according to your own will! Go ahead! And as authorities over them I'd station the robust peasants. Well, now, honourable gentlemen, you were given to eat and to drink, you were given an education--what have you learned? |