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"Fateful bell"
Part 1

«…And exactly at the moment when the space between the wheels came opposite her, she dropped the red bag, and drawing her head back into her shoulders, fell on her hands under the carriage, and lightly, as though she would rise again at once, dropped on to her knees. And at the same instant she was terror-stricken at what she was doing. "Where am I? What am I doing? What for?" She tried to get up, to drop backwards; but something huge and merciless struck her on the head and rolled her on her back. "Lord, forgive me all!" she said, feeling it impossible to struggle. A peasant muttering something was working at the iron above her. And the light by which she had read the book filled with troubles, falsehoods, sorrow, and evil, flared up more brightly than ever before, lighted up for her all that had been in darkness, flickered, began to grow dim, and was quenched forever…!»

Anna, Anna !, - slightly agitated mother's voice with difficulty reached the girl's ear. The book did not let her go. It seemed to her that she felt the sharp smell of sleepers and burned coal, saw carriages passing by, which take with them to eternity all the memories, love and life ...