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The Way of the Cross
God for the kind man who saved my children,—says he.
He has found a footing at Roslavl and will remain there. Drives a cab.
—Two roubles a day shall I earn, think I. One and a half will feed the horse, and the fifty copecks which remain must suffice for us four.
—Not a large budget. And what if you were to sell the horse and go farther?
He looked at me straight in the eyes with terror.
—Master! said he, I have a horse, and so all the same I remain a man! A human being! But without a horse, what sort of a being should I be? What should I be?
On all sides you hear:
—Well, at least we have a horse! So we can still count ourselves human beings! Still peasants!
—And if the money be all spent, and
