Page:The Way of the Cross, Doroshevich, tr. Graham, 1916.djvu/92

 76 God for the kind man who saved my children,—says he.

He has found a footing at Roslavl and will remain there. Drives a cab.

—Two roubles a day shall I earn, think I. One and a half will feed the horse, and the fifty copecks which remain must suffice for us four.

—Not a large budget. And what if you were to sell the horse and go farther?

He looked at me straight in the eyes with terror.

—Master! said he, I have a horse, and so all the same I remain a man! A human being! But without a horse, what sort of a being should I be? What should I be?

On all sides you hear:

—Well, at least we have a horse! So we can still count ourselves human beings! Still peasants!

—And if the money be all spent, and