And quiet flows the Don; a novel by Sholokhov Mikhail Aleksandrovich 1905-

Author:Sholokhov, Mikhail Aleksandrovich, 1905-
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: World War, 1914-1918, Soviet Union -- History Revolution, 1917-1921 Fiction
Publisher: Moscow : Foreign Languages Pub. House
Published: 1900-10-14T05:00:00+00:00

"Well, I'd noticed his goings-on for a long time, and then someone told me he'd been carrying on at the mill with a hussy from across the Don. I went out and found them by the mill."

"Any news of your husband, Natalya?" the gaunt woman interrupted, turning to Natalya.

"He's at Yagodnoye," she replied in a whisper.

"Do you think of living with him or not?"

"She might think of it, but he doesn't," their hostess intervened. Natalya felt the hot blood surging to her face. She bent her head over her stocking and glanced from under her brows at the women. Realizing that she could not hide her flush of shame from them, she deliberately, yet so clumsily that everybody noticed it, sent the ball of wool rolling from her knees, and then bent down and groped over the cold floor.

"Spit on him, woman! So long as you have a neck, you'll always find a yoke for it," one woman advised her with unconcealed pity in her voice.

Natalya's affected liveliness died away like a spark in the wind. The women's conversation turned to the latest scandal, to tittle-tattle and gossip. Natalya knitted in silence. She forced herself to sit on until the party broke up, and

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