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I was myself in a state of dreadful confusion, and didn't know what to say. Girshel too was fidgeting restlessly, and gesticulating in a strange way.... 'Any way, I said to him, 'you get out.... Unwillingly, as it seemed, Girshel obeyed. I went up to the muffled-up figure, and gently took the dark hood off her head.
'That is not probable, however. You were how is it said in Russian? taken on the fact, that is, in the very facts! 'Hear me, your Excellency; I am not guilty. 'You drew the plan? you are a spy of the enemy? 'It wasn't me! Girshel shrieked suddenly; 'not I, your Excellency! The general looked at Siliavka. 'Why, he's raving, your Excellency.
I could see all his actions very clearly. He put his hand into his bosom, took out a scrap of paper and a pencil, and began writing or drawing something. Girshel continually stopped, started like a hare, attentively scrutinised everything around him, and seemed to be sketching our camp. More than once he hid his scrap of paper, half closed his eyes, sniffed at the air, and again set to work.
'According to the law, hang the Hebrew, he said constrainedly, with the air of a man forced to do violence to his heart, and sacrifice his better feelings to inexorable duty 'hang him! Fiodor Karlitch, I beg you to draw up a report of the occurrence.... A horrible change suddenly came over Girshel.
I looked carelessly about me... and all at once caught sight of a bent figure in a grey wrapper, a hundred paces from me. I recognised Girshel. He stood without moving for a long while in one place, then suddenly ran a little on one side, looked hurriedly and furtively round... uttered a cry, squatted down, cautiously craned his neck and began looking round again and listening.
I went up to Girshel, addressed him; he sobbed like a baby, and did not even look at me. With a hopeless gesture I went to my tent, flung myself on a rug, and closed my eyes.... Suddenly some one ran hastily and noisily into my tent. I raised my head and saw Sara; she looked beside herself. She rushed up to me, and clutched at my hands. 'Come along, come along, she insisted breathlessly.
I waited till the end of the rubber, got up and went out. Yes, it was so; I saw Girshel. 'Well, he questioned me with an ingratiating smile, 'your honour, are you satisfied? 'How so? 'How so, indeed! What a question! 'Ay, ay, your honour, you 're too bad, Girshel said reproachfully, but never ceasing smiling. 'The girl is young and modest.... You frightened her, indeed, you did.
Sara looked wildly round, clutched her head in both hands, and ran at breakneck pace towards the open country, to her father. I followed her. Every one stared at us, wondering. We ran up to the soldiers. They were standing in a ring, and picture it, gentlemen! they were laughing, laughing at poor Girshel. I flew into a rage and shouted at them. The Jew saw us and fell on his daughter's neck.
And you... he motioned the soldiers to the Jew... 'quickly. Siliavka went up to the Jew. 'Of course. Certainly. The unhappy girl was scarcely conscious. Girshel was muttering something to her in Yiddish.... The soldiers with difficulty freed Sara from her father's arms, and carefully carried her twenty steps away.
'You, young man, he answered me in Russian, 'I was saying to you, are inexperienced, and therefore I beg you silent to be, and me no more to trouble. Girshel with a shriek dropped at the general's feet. 'Your Excellency, have mercy; I will never again, I will not, your Excellency; I have a wife... your Excellency, a daughter... have mercy.... 'It's no use!
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