TARAS BULBA
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in the weakness of his soul: "Father! Where are you? Do you hear it all?"
"I hear!" rang through the universal silence, and all that million of people shuddered in concert. A detachment of mounted soldiers hastened anxiously to scan the throng of people. Yankel turned pale as death, and when the horsemen arrived within a short distance of him he turned round in terror to look at Taras: but Taras was no longer beside him; every trace of him was lost.
