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"I dare say, but I advise you not to " "For chastity's sake, I suppose?" "If you like." "But chastity is the very thing that we don't possess!" "If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out!" said Ivanoff. "Oh! please don't talk nonsense, like Yourii Svarogitsch! God didn't give us eyes that we might pluck out." Ivanoff smiled, and shrugged his shoulders.

Behind the garden there was a meadow where wild flowers bloomed amid the long grass. "Let us sit down here," said Sina. They sat down by the, fence that was falling to pieces, and looked across the meadow at the dying sunset. Yourii caught hold of a slender lilac-branch, from which fell a shower of dew. "Shall I sing something to you?" asked Sina. "Oh! yes, do!" replied Yourii.

Well, what then? Marry her?" Marriage! To Yourii the very word sounded appallingly commonplace. How could anyone of his complex temperament endure the idea of a philistine menage? It was impossible. "And yet I love her," he thought. "Why should I put her from me, and go? Why should I destroy my own happiness? It's monstrous! It's absurd!"

"Yes! wasn't it sad? That music, too!" "I don't blame Sanine," said Yourii with emphasis. "He could not have acted otherwise. The horrible part of it all is that the paths of these two men crossed, so that one or the other was obliged to give way. It is also horrible that the victor does not realize that his triumph is an appalling one.

The tombstones and crosses looked whiter in this dull setting. So the black earth received Yourii. Just at that awful moment when the coffin disappeared from view and the earth became a barrier for ever between the quick and the dead, Sina uttered a piercing shriek. Her sobs echoed through the quiet burial- ground, painfully affecting the little group of silent mourners.

Schafroff blandly adduced certain arguments in support of his programme, yet in so diffuse a way that no one could understand him. "No," said Yourii with emphasis, delighted to observe Sina Karsavina looking at him, "No, I don't agree with you."

Then, aloud, "I am in love now." "With whom?" she asked, fearing to hear the answer, while yet certain that she knew it. "With you, of course," replied Yourii, vainly assuming playful tone as he leant forward and gazed into her eyes, that shone strangely in the gloom. They expressed surprise and expectancy.

And the crown of laurels would fit my skull so closely, that I should soon find it irksome!" "Always about himself!" muttered Novikoff, mockingly. Yourii did not hear him, being morbidly pleased with his own eloquence. There was a beautiful gloom about his utterances, so he thought; they seemed to ennoble him, to heighten his sense of self-respect.

Yourii noticed her dejection, and was morbidly pleased thereat, as if he had revenged himself on some one he loved for a gross personal insult. At home his ill-humour was increased. During dinner Lialia repeated what Riasantzeff had told her about Soloveitchik. As the men were removing the corpse, several urchins had called out: "Ikey's hanged himself! Ikey's hanged himself!"

Our conception of God must always be an idolatrous one, and we shall always give to our fetish the physiognomy and the garb suitable to the climatic conditions of the country in which we live. Absurd, isn't it." "Yes, you're right," grunted Ivanoff, "quite right!" "Then, what is the good of living?" asked Yourii, as he pushed back his glass in disgust, "or of dying, either?"