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'He is of that sort that they make angels of', said the verger, 'but they can't make many if they want him all as good as he is'.

'Here I should write large and bright about the SPRING. It has come. It has been with us for over a fortnight. Never did a winter sleep more like an infant sucking it's thumb'

'Mother says' - she hesitated uncertainly - 'mother says that two souls are sometimes created together and - and in love before they're born'

'Or once when I was sitting by the river I saw a cradle floating downstream. It was quite intact, except for a broken corner. Then the thoughts really came. Who could the owner of the cradle be? Your damn soldiers must have come to an aul and rounded up the Chechen women. Some devil killed an infant; took it by its legs and hit its head against the corner of a house. They do things like that, don't they?'

'They were given to me by a girlfriend who was surprised that I often lay awake after she went to sleep. She discovered it one night when she woke to go to the bathroom and bought me the glow stars the next day. Glow stars are strange. They make the ceiling disappear'.

'I rose, and sank on the cushioned couch beside her, yet quivering with emotion, though for a moment my mad passion had left me, as the leaves of a tree quiver still, although the gust be gone that stirred them. I did not dare tell her that I had seen her in that deep and hellish mood, muttering incantations to the fire in the tomb'

'They did not hate him. They were not jealous of him either, nor did they begrudge him the food he ate. There was not the slightest cause for such feelings in the Gaillard household. It simply disturbed them that he was there. They could not smell him. They were afraid of him'.