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Show "St the Fired. 'l‘llli lMlIh' FOREST It must seen] to him now, as to myself, Mranwlv fulfilled: but I Ireliv re that it I eateh the heaat. it will only he to dismm r that Iln re iv. a further quest beyond. unit [la n another maybe 3.. yond that. . _\i lln‘ mine time there-w the pravtival question of one's l,i".‘\t‘. It this strain of worl; wntinuw‘, it the hot weather Iaxtx‘. and it I «Iona :«rlwp. I shall have to talm ware. 'l‘hree tinw» during the hot three days I have tam-iml that l have .1, I ,i \Iarie l\'ano\'na. onwe in broad daylight in the, Forest, (iln't‘5llllllg'ttl1llH‘ sofa in our room. onw at night near 111\' lied. (It, ('oursr this is the nit-rest illusion, but, I have hours now when I am not quite sure of things. Andrev \Vassilie\‘iti-h told me something; of the same toidalv fithat he thouuht that he r1a\\' his wife and that Nihitin told hini the same yesterday. The llies also are Confusing and there‘s a hot dry hIJH'll that‘s disagreealile and pi‘event.< one from eating. I lgnow that I must lzeep a clear head on these things. It only one could get away for an hour or two, right. outside -but one is >hut up in this li‘orest as though it were a green oven. . . . I ought to he sleeping now instead of writing all this. . . . I must say that I had a curious illusion ten minutes ago while I was writing this, that one of the wounded, in a bed near the door which is open, began to slip, hed and all, across the door towards me. He did indeed (-ome closer and eloser to me, the bed moving:r in jerks as though it were pushed. This was, of course, simply be- ('aur-‘e my eyes were tired. When I try to sleep they are hot and smarting'. . . . l interrupt 'l'renehard's diary to give a very brief account of the impresxion that was made on me by my visit to the three of them with some wagons four days after the date 0f the above entry. It must, he remembered that I had 110$ rd's diary, nor l tour I , at tlllh tnnt lead any ut {I‘l'eneha FOUR? 285 had I seen anything of him Hinee the moment of Semyonov‘s arrival. My ehiet impression during the inter ral had been le, my memory of 'l‘renehard as I had last seen him, miserab good white-fared, unnerved. I had thought about him a us of rest the for been had deal. Those days at the ()triad we that on rather pl ‘asantly tranquil. There was no questi 'I‘renehard. were relieved by the absence of Seniyonov and we had Seniyonov was no easy companion at any time and us the weight of the very natural desire to throw off from not speak oF Marie Ivanovna's unexpeeted death. I will had not been myself in this matter, but for the others. She strange and int very long in their company, she had been engaged to a man, settled in her behaviour, she had been ri-all within a jilted him, and ei'igaged herself to anothe , was occupied inces- very short period of time. I, myself that was my own affair. santly by my thoughts of her, but tranquil and easy. On The past- week then with us had been Forest I was met at once my arrival at the "Point" in the thing the war here was by a new atmosphere. For one few yards away, towards on the very top of us. Only a Some- dlggii g trenches. the end of the garden, they were Forest, a battery had esthe in where beyond the windows, at the edge of a hill, the tablished itself near a clearing were and branehes. Soldiers. guns disguised with leaves The house seemed l'ull o! movingr incessantly to and fro. ging; wer.e dig . 0'oinv'. They t wounded, wagons coming and b t) bodies were lying Ill tho graves in the garden , and sheeted orchard. glad to see me for a mo My friends greeted me, seemed entirely out I was had felt a closer I . ore s bef side their life. Onlv ten day ey \ assr lieviteh and Xllilintimacy with TrenehL ard, An‘dr simply their business‘. ment, and then pursued y of them. Now I tin than I had ever had with an |