From the time he had covered himself with the sackcloth and
\nseated himself behind the sledge, Nikita had not stirred. Like
\nall those who live in touch with nature and have known want, he
\nwas patient and could wait for hours, even days, without
\ngrowing restless or irritable. He heard his master call him,
\nbut did not answer because he did not want to move or talk.
\nThough he still felt some warmth from the tea he had drunk and
\nfrom his energetic struggle when clambering about in the
\nsnowdrift, he knew that this warmth would not last long and
\nthat he had no strength left to warm himself again by moving
\nabout, for he felt as tired as a horse when it stops and
\nrefuses to go further in spite of the whip, and its master sees
\nthat it must be fed before it can work again. The foot in the
\nboot with a hole in it had already grown numb, and he could no
\nlonger feel his big toe. Besides that, his whole body began to
\nfeel colder and colder.<\/p>\n
The thought that he might, and very probably would, die that
\nnight occurred to him, but did not seem particularly unpleasant
\nor dreadful. It did not seem particularly unpleasant, because
\nhis whole life had been not a continual holiday, but on the
\ncontrary an unceasing round of toil of which he was beginning
\nto feel weary. And it did not seem particularly dreadful,
\nbecause besides the masters he had served here, like Vasili
\nAndreevich, he always felt himself dependent on the Chief
\nMaster, who had sent him into this life, and he knew that when
\ndying he would still be in that Master’s power and would not be
\nill-used by Him. ‘It seems a pity to give up what one is used
\nto and accustomed to. But there’s nothing to be done, I shall
\nget used to the new things.’<\/p>\n
‘Sins?’ he thought, and remembered his drunkenness, the money
\nthat had gone on drink, how he had offended his wife, his
\ncursing, his neglect of church and of the fasts, and all the
\nthings the priest blamed him for at confession. ‘Of course they
\nare sins. But then, did I take them on of myself? That’s
\nevidently how God made me. Well, and the sins? Where am I to
\nescape to?’<\/p>\n
So at first he thought of what might happen to him that night,
\nand then did not return to such thoughts but gave himself up to
\nwhatever recollections came into his head of themselves. Now
\nhe thought of Martha’s arrival, of the drunkenness among the
\nworkers and his own renunciation of drink, then of their
\npresent journey and of Taras’s house and the talk about the
\nbreaking-up of the family, then of his own lad, and of Mukhorty
\nnow sheltered under the drugget, and then of his master who
\nmade the sledge creak as he tossed about in it. ‘I expect
\nyou’re sorry yourself that you started out, dear man,’ he
\nthought. ‘It would seem hard to leave a life such as his!
\nIt’s not like the likes of us.’<\/p>\n
Then all these recollections began to grow confused and got
\nmixed in his head, and he fell asleep.
\nBut when Vasili Andreevich, getting on the horse, jerked the
\nsledge, against the back of which Nikita was leaning, and it
\nshifted away and hit him in the back with one of its runners,
\nhe awoke and had to change his position whether he liked it or
\nnot. Straightening his legs with difficulty and shaking the
\nsnow off them he got up, and an agonizing cold immediately
\npenetrated his whole body. On making out what was happening he
\ncalled to Vasili Andreevich to leave him the drugget which the
\nhorse no longer needed, so that he might wrap himself in it.
\nBut Vasili Andreevich did not stop, but disappeared amid the
\npowdery snow.<\/p>\n
Left alone Nikita considered for a moment what he should do.
\nHe felt that he had not the strength to go off in search of a
\nhouse. It was no longer possible to sit down in his old
\nplace–it was by now all filled with snow. He felt that he
\ncould not get warmer in the sledge either, for there was
\nnothing to cover himself with, and his coat and sheepskin no
\nlonger warmed him at all. He felt as cold as though he had
\nnothing on but a shirt. He became frightened. ‘Lord, heavenly
\nFather!’ he muttered, and was comforted by the consciousness
\nthat he was not alone but that there was One who heard him and
\nwould not abandon him. He gave a deep sigh, and keeping the
\nsackcloth over his head he got inside the sledge and lay down
\nin the place where his master had been.<\/p>\n
But he could not get warm in the sledge either. At first he
\nshivered all over, then the shivering ceased and little by
\nlittle he began to lose consciousness. He did not know whether
\nhe was dying or falling asleep, but felt equally prepared for
\nthe one as for the other.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
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\nLeo Tolstoy<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"