This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... AN EVENING IN MAY Chapter I. HANNA. THE sound of singing rolled like a sonorous river through the streets of the village of X. It was the hour when, weary with work and the cares of the day, young men and maidens met in noisy groups beneath the splendor of the limpid evening, giving utterance to their ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... AN EVENING IN MAY Chapter I. HANNA. THE sound of singing rolled like a sonorous river through the streets of the village of X. It was the hour when, weary with work and the cares of the day, young men and maidens met in noisy groups beneath the splendor of the limpid evening, giving utterance to their happiness in songs that are always touched with melancholy; and the mysterious evening, too, was enveloping the bright day in melancholy, drowning everything in vague distance. It was already the hour of twilight and the singing had not ceased. His guitar in his hand, the young Cossack, Levko, son of the headman, slipped away from the rest of the singers. Upon his head was an Astracan cap. He walked along the street making the strings of the instrument resound beneath his fingers, the while keeping time with his body. Suddenly he stopped before the door of a cottage surrounded by cherry trees. Whose is the cottage? Whose the door? After a short silence he began to play and sing: "The sun is low and the night draws near, Come near to me, my own true love." "But without doubt my beauty of the clear eyes is soundly sleeping," says the Cossack, approaching the window, his song being finished. "Haliou! Haliou! Are you sleeping, or unwilling to come to me? You fear, perhaps, lest some one see us, or perhaps you do not wish tc expose your little white face to the cold. Don't be afraid; I am alone. The evening is warm, and even if some one should chance upon us, I would cover you with my svitka; I would wrap you in my girdle; I would make a screen of my hands so that no one should see you. Even if it were cold, still might you come. I would press you the more closely to my heart; I would warm you with my kisses, and I would spread Haliou--diminutive of...
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