[Foma Gordyeff by Maxim Gorky]@TWC D-Link bookFoma Gordyeff CHAPTER IX 64/83
I am rich, and yet you are going away; that shows you're not greedy." "I ?" Sasha thought awhile and said with a wave of the hand: "Perhaps I am not greedy--what of it? I am not of the very lowest of the street women.
And against whom shall I feel a grudge? Let them say whatever they please.
It will be only human talk, not the bellowing of bulls.
And human holiness and honesty are quite familiar to me! Eh, how well I know them! If I were chosen as a judge, I would acquit the dead only l" and bursting into malicious laughter, Sasha said: "Well, that will do, we've spoken enough nonsense.
Sit down at the table!" On the morning of the next day Foma and Sasha stood side by side on the gangway of a steamer which was approaching a harbour on the Ustye. Sasha's big black hat attracted everybody's attention by its deftly bent brim, and its white feathers, and Foma was ill at ease as he stood beside her, and felt as though inquisitive glances crawled over his perplexed face.
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