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The Way of the Cross
Men, women, children, and horses.
These strong people with their strong horses—are like a marsh overgrown with emerald green grass, behind which is a swamp and a quagmire.
"A strong front" which has, however, a dreadful significance.
How many "sacrificial victims" remain behind for only one of these who have got through.
We came through Malo-Yaroslavets with its memorials of 1812.
—Have you any fugitives?
—A few of them come through. They say there are crowds in Medin.
That is all the sign there is of the great "movement of the people."
All:
—They say:
The fugitives do not know whither they are going.
They come along gropingly.
