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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ACT II A few weeks later. It iff the dining-room in the house of Piotr. The table is spread for a farewell luncheon. A door on the right leads to the hallway in which Sidorenko is locking and strapping up trunks. The bell rings. Sidorenko opens the door, admitting Asya and Semyonov. Asya takes off her hat, Semyonov hangs up his overcoat, and both enter the dining-room. Asya. Nobody in. We had better wait here, Senya. I suppose they are not thinking about us now. They have enough to occupy them. Semyonov. All right, let's wait. He sits down at the window and lights a cigarette.') Asya. Smoking again, Senya? That's bad for you. Semyonov. What's the difference? I'll die if I smoke, and I'll die if I don't. I can't last much longer, no matter what I do. Asya nervously paces the room, smoothing down a wrinkled corner of the tablecloth, and gazing through the window. Semyonov. Why are you so nervous, Asya? Asya. I don't know. I can't get it into my head. It's all so unexpected. Semyonov. Unexpected? Hardly. On the contrary, it was to be expected long ago. Do you think the Germans have been preparing for war these forty years for their own private satisfaction, eh? Asya. I didn't mean it that way. You could have told it was coming, I suppose; you know about such things; but to me it would have been unexpected, no matter when it came. I can't imagine how people can make up their minds to such a horror. The misery and tears it has brought into almost every home In the whole city there isn't one who hasn't some relative or some dear friend to take leave of. The soldiers are so jolly, and they sing as they go. Even the officers look as though they are glad. But my heart contracts when I think of the many of them that are doomed to death and terrible agony a...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217417068 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021741706X |
| Weight | 0.21 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.13 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 54 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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