Tales of the Wilderness
an of light. The nights were silvery, the sky seemed dissolved into a pale, pellucid mist; sunset and dawn co-mingled
in Makar's room, and
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st time; then, showing his teeth, he struck her with his paw. Demid beat hi
ods in the daytime, an
and cloth hangings, brightly embroidered with red and blue cocks and reindeers. She placed an image of the God-Mother in the corner; she washed
went in to Marina. She could not think-her mind moved slowly and awkwardly like a great lumbering animal-she could only feel, and in th
ite spirals of mist drifted along the ground. Night-owls and wood spirits hooted. In the morning
ew by and s