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And as he sank into unconsciousness, as his thoughts began to be confused, he imagined the long corridor of the court at Moscow, himself delivering a speech, his sisters, the orchestra which for some reason kept droning: "Oo-oo-oo-oo! Oo-oooo-oo!" "Booh! Trah!" sounded again. "Booh!"
He slept in a warm room, in a soft bed covered with a quilt under which there were fine clean sheets, but for some reason did not feel comfortable: perhaps because the doctor and Von Taunitz were, for a long time, talking in the adjoining room, and overhead he heard, through the ceiling and in the stove, the wind roaring just as in the Zemstvo hut, and as plaintively howling: "Oo-oo-oo-oo!"
Silence!! Silence!!! Helmets are, of course, perfectly preposterous." "Oo-oo-oo-oo, sir-r-r!" "But, sir, the danger!" "Please, sir, the falling timbers!" The Fire Brigade had been in action once and once only in the memory of man, and that time it was a haystack which had burned itself out just as the rescuers had succeeded in fastening the hose to the hydrant. "Silence!"
The moon must have been behind the clouds, as the windows and the snow on the window-frames could be seen distinctly. "Oo-oo-oo!" sang the storm, "Oo-oo-oo-oo!" "Ho-ho-ly sa-aints!" wailed a woman in the loft, or it sounded like it. "Ho-ho-ly sa-aints!" "B-booh!" something outside banged against the wall. "Trah!"
That's it... Where are you shoving to?" "Now, all together! But wait a moment, boys... With a song!" All stood silent, and a soft, pleasant velvety voice began to sing. At the end of the third verse as the last note died away, twenty voices roared out at once: "Oo-oo-oo-oo! That's it. All together!
"Si-lence! The idea of a uniform is, of course, out of the question." "Oo-oo-oo-oo, sir-r-r!" "Be quiet! Entirely out of the question. We cannot plunge into needless expense. Stone, listen to me. I cannot have this noise and disturbance! Another time when a point arises it must be settled by a show of hands. Well, Wilson?" "Please, sir, may we have helmets?"
I've always been proud of my hair." "It'll grow out again," he said soothingly. "Besides, what I cut off didn't cover a spot an inch and a half in diameter. With hair like yours, it can't be noticed. If I'd thought it would disfigure your hair, girl, I'd have said, 'Let the old gold go! What an idea!" "I positively never heard of such a weird thing. And to think it's on me! And Oo-oo-oo-oo!
Oh, how much they would have given now only to stroll along the Nevsky Prospect, or along Petrovka in Moscow, to listen to decent singing, to sit for an hour or so in a restaurant! "Oo-oo-oo-oo!" sang the storm in the loft, and something outside slammed viciously, probably the signboard on the hut. "Oo-oo-oo-oo!"
"Si-lence! The idea of a uniform is, of course, out of the question." "Oo-oo-oo-oo, sir-r-r!" "Be quiet! Entirely out of the question. We cannot plunge into needless expense. Stone, listen to me. I cannot have this noise and disturbance! Another time when a point arises it must be settled by a show of hands. Well, Wilson?" "Please, sir, may we have helmets?"
Silence!! Silence!!! Helmets are, of course, perfectly preposterous." "Oo-oo-oo-oo, sir-r-r!" "But, sir, the danger!" "Please, sir, the falling timbers!" The Fire Brigade had been in action once and once only in the memory of man, and that time it was a haystack which had burnt itself out just as the rescuers had succeeded in fastening the hose to the hydrant. "Silence!"
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