What Vasile Saw part 9
Why war? why suffering and cold and sacrifices when life might be easy—why? why? Why a God in the Heavens… too far off? Why...
What Vasile Saw part 8
Others rose to examine the longed-for wood Vasile had brought and exclamations of all kinds arose.
The prisoners raised their heads and stared with sullen...
What Vasile Saw part 7
With a rapid movement Vasile seized the first cross and tried to pull it from the frozen ground. … The cross resisted—resisted like a...
What Vasile Saw part 6
Vasile crossed himself instinctively, murmuring under his breath a prayer for the dead. He stood gazing in a dazed way at those three melancholy...
What Vasile Saw part 5
“Wood—wood! I was to find wood,” he grumbled. “Where in this damned desert is there any wood I wonder! My God, what a night!
The...
What Vasile Saw part 4
Vasile shrugged his shoulders. “As you will,” he said, slinging his gun upon his back and without further protest set out, wading with stiff...
What Vasile Saw part 3
A gust of wind whirled up a great wave of snow and each man turned so as to meet the onslaught with his back.
“A...
What Vasile Saw part 2
Their burly guardians paid little attention to them; in short sentences which the wind seemed to rend, they were talking to their only young...
What Vasile Saw part 1
Marie, Queen of Roumania (1875-1935)
JUST as one never thinks of Conrad as anything but an English writer, so one considers Queen Marie as Roumanian....
The Father part 2
Eight years more rolled by, and then one day a noise was heard outside of the priest`s study, for many men were approaching, and...
