The complete works of Count Tolstoy . that I mightnot see him do it. He continued to speak, saying thathe felt that he was stOl able to rise again, if he had a manlike me to take interest in him. We were on the point of going to the tent in orderto lie down, when suddenly a bullet whizzed by us andlodged in the ground not far away. It was so strange, —this quiet, sleeping camp, our conversation, and suddenlythe inimical bullet, which, God knew whence, flew amidstour tents, — it was all so strange that I was for quiteawhile unable to account for what had happened. Our And ? 1 sud- .. :?? and ie
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