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8 THE CRIMEA.M

his self possession, when, as he turned his
bead, he perceived the sudden flash of gun
the sentinel on the bastiOn cried out:
"Mor-tarF'
And one OF the soldiers following him
shouted.
Its coming straight for tho bastion''
MlkhailOf looked The luminous point of
the bomb seemed to have stopped i'll its zenith
Just at the moment when the direction it was
about to take was impossible to determine; it
was only the space of a second; suddenly the
projeCtile, redOubhng its velocity, came
nearer and nearer; already the flying sparks
Of its fuse could be seen and its dismal whistle
became audible; it was going to fall in tho
very middle of the battalion.
Lie down." cried voice
Mikhailoff and PraSkoukine obeyed. The
latter, with his eyes closed, heard the bomb
falling somewhere very close beside him on
the hard ground. A second, which seemed to
hun an hour, passed; the bomb did not eH-
ploie PraskOukine became terrified; then
he argued with himself whether there was
really any reason for him TO bo afraid; per
hapS it had fallen away further than he
thought, and he might have been mistaken in
imagining that he could hear the fuse crack
ling beside him Opening his eyes he saw
with much satisfaction that Mikhailof was
lying m0tionlcSS AT his feet; but at the same
time he saw, only about one archine away,
the flaming fuse of the bomb which was spin
ming like top.
A glacial terror which killed all other feel
ing, every other idea, took possession of his
whole being; he covered his face with both
hands
Still another second passed, during which
whole world of fancies. hopes sensations and
memories passed through his mind.
who is it going 10 kill-me or Mikhailof,
or both Of us together! AMI if it is me, where
| is il going Ia strike me! II il strikes me in
the head. then it will be ell up with me; if in
the foot, they will cut tae foot off. Then J
will insist on being chlorpformed, and will be
able to live on. Perhaps only Mikhailuf will
bc killed; and afterwarl will he able to tell
how we We're together, and how | was GOV
cred with his blood. No. mol 1t is nearer TO
mel IL will he me-"
Then he thought Of the twelve rouhles hs
still owed Mikhailof, and Of another debt h"
owed at st Petersburg. which ought To have
! been paid long ago; gipsv air he had been
singing the night before came to his memory.
Also in imagination he saw the woman he
/ loved, wearing a bonnet with lilac ribbons,
and also the man who had insulted him fivs
| fears before, whom he had not vet had a
chance to revenge himself upon; hut through
all these and many other souvenirs, the feel
! ing of the preSent-the sense of waiting for
dcath-never left him Suppose it were not
to go off at all!" he thought, and he was
about TO open his eyes with desperate au-
dacity: but at that very n.oment, even through
| his still-closed eyelids, red flame smUte his
eyes; something, with frightful noise,
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sprang up and ran forward at random,
! tripped himself up over his own sword, and
fell heavily upon his side.
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wanted to feel his breast but his hands
seemed to him to have become suddenly tied,
and his head caught in a wise; before his eyes
soldiers were running by; he counted them
mechanically:
"One, two, three soldiers. and there's an
officer who's going to lose his cloak
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been fired-whether il was a mortar or a can
non! OF course Il cannon. More firing; and
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passing him; and all at once he felt a terrible
fear of being crushed by them. He wanted
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