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"BAH! " said Stepan, moving not a muscle as Gavril brandished the great / axe over his head. "It seems to me that, for a man no longer in his / first youth, thou art passing foolish. Hast thou not sin enough yet / upon thy soul but thou must add murder to thy wrongdoings? In truth, / Red-scar, thou hast much to learn, and thou wilt one day learn thy last / lesson too late, with a noose about thy neck."
"Now out upon thee for an old croaker! " cried Gavril, but his cheek had / paled, and he had put the axe down.