He turned
into the dark forest. All was quiet, the moon is gone. But he heard sounds in
the stillness of the night - machines in the mines, travelers on the road. He
slowly descended the hill. And to top it, he saw flames Staksgeyta, Tavershala
yellow lights, lights everywhere, scattered in the dark night - and the distant
glow of blast furnaces - pale pink pinkness white-hot metal. Sharp, wicked
electric lights Staksgeyta! And this burden of fear and perpetual night on the
industrial Midlands! He heard the siren, letting the miners home. The mines
were working in three shifts. He again descended into the darkness and solitude
of the forest. But he knew that it was the ghostly solitude. Echoes of their
way, and here, and the sharp lights, though unseen, - teased him here. The man
could not stand alone and distant. The world does not recognize the hermits.
And now he's joined up with this woman and this brought on a new pain and
death. For he knew it to previous experience. This wine was not a woman, and
not love, not sex. Wine was lying there, there, in those evil electric lights
and diabolical din of machinery. There, in the mechanical world of greed,
greedy machines and greedy people, flashing lights, splashing hot metal and
roaring vehicles - there lay a great evil, ready to destroy all that opposed
him. Soon, it will destroy and forest. All fine and delicate should be lost
under a stream of iron and steel. With infinite tenderness he thought of the
woman. The poor lost creature, it was better than she is aware, and so much
better than the people with whom she had to live! Poor thing, it was also the
fragility, the fragility of wild hyacinths, - it was all like rubber and
platinum - as a modern woman. And they will destroy her! This is true as life,
- they will destroy it as destroying all esestvennoe and gentle in his life.
Gentle! There was something tender, tender bloom of hyacinths, something has
disappeared from the cross-godnyashnih women. But he guards the time of her on
my heart. For a short time until the insatiable world of Mammon, and the iron
fur-nizirovannoy greed does not destroy them both. He walked home with a gun
and a dog, to a dark house. He came in and lit the lamp and ate bread and
cheese, young onions and beer. He was alone in the silence that is so loved.
His room was clean and tidy, although a bit gloomy. But the fire crackled
merrily in the fireplace, and the lamp was burning brightly on the table
covered with white oilcloth.
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