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Lise and her friends have finally defeated their greatest foe, but at a great cost. One of their number has been captured by wrathful enemies determined to extract.
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The first three days of trekking are steep ups and downs. We follow the fast-flowing Wakhan River along the base of the towering, arid Pamir Mountains, passing the ruins of villages and lonely ancient tombs. At night, the herders stop to sleep in simple stone and mud-brick shelters that are dotted regularly along the trail. Most are dark, cramped and dirty, the worst having goat droppings all over the floor. The herders sleep on thin canvas mats they carry with them.
The rooms smell of animals and burning wood — fires are lit in the middle of the hut for brewing tea, which is drunk non-stop. The atmosphere inside the huts is very social in the evening and through smiles, sign language and just plain messing about, we get to know some of the traders. The Kyrgyz people who live in this part of Afghanistan are nomadic, and once travelled down from their native country, neighbouring Kyrgyzstan, during the summer months to graze their animals in the grasslands surrounding several small lakes here. When the Wakhan Corridor was created in the late 19th century, several thousand were stranded inside what became Afghanistan and remain scattered around the valley in small communities.
On our fifth day, we encounter an army checkpoint — a few heavy canvas tents and some Afghan army soldiers fenced in by barbed wire. The compound includes a small boarding school for around 15 Kyrgyz teen boys. After days in cramped mountain shelters, the accommodation here feels palatial: clean floors, comfortable cushions, blankets, and most importantly, a wood-fired heater.
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The evening offers cultural exchange: we teach the teens to do handstands, and the Afghan soldiers point out their hometowns on a map of Afghanistan and explain their desire for the Taliban and foreign insurgent fighters to leave their homeland. Disappointed but glad to have permission to go anywhere, we set out through frigid conditions towards an icy lake; many natural, barren mounds dot the landscape. After some hours, we encounter a yurt tent village where a farming family offers us compulsory tea. Their yurt, lit by a bare solar-powered bulb, is covered with carpets and stacks of colourful pillows and blankets.
Although the Kyrgyz live in a remote place, they make money by trading livestock with the Afghans and use some of the profits to purchase a few practical modern amenities. Our guide translates in Afghan Pashto many of the Kyrgyz understand the language for trading , to talk about where we are from and why we have come to see the area.
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Unfortunately, the weather begins to deteriorate and clouds have dropped, bringing snow towards us. Overnight, the weather turns into a full-blown storm and we awaken at the compound to a blanket of snow covering what had previously been an expanse of greenery, the silence punctuated with just the crunching of feet through snow.
Though summer ended just a month ago, autumn does not last long in this highly changeable, high-altitude climate. He lived alone on his great estate, and she lived alone in a forlorn little village, and yet the very idea that they might one day become intimate and equal seemed to her impossible and absurd. Life was like that! And, at bottom, all human relationships and all life were so incomprehensible that if you thought about them at all dread would overwhelm you and your heart would stop beating.
A pleasant journey to you! And once more Maria Vasilievna's thoughts turned to her scholars, and the coming examinations, and the watchman, and the school board, until a gust of wind from the right bringing her the rumbling of the departing carriage, other reveries mingled with these thoughts, and she longed to dream of handsome eyes and love and the happiness that would never be hers. She, a wife!
Alas, how cold her little room was early in the morning! No one ever lit her stove, because the watchman was always away somewhere. Her pupils came at daybreak, with a great noise, bringing in with them mud and snow, and everything was so bleak and so uncomfortable in her little quarters of one small bedroom which also served as a kitchen!
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Her head ached every day when school was over. She was obliged to collect money from her scholars to buy wood and pay the watchman, and then to give it to that fat, insolent peasant, the warden, and beg him for mercy's sake to send her a load of wood. And at night she would dream of examinations and peasants and snow drifts. This life had aged and hardened her, and she had grown plain and angular and awkward, as if lead had been emptied into her veins. She was afraid of everything, and never dared to sit down in the presence of the warden or a member of the school board.
If she mentioned any one of them in his absence, she always spoke of him respectfully as "his Honour. What a terrible calamity it would be were she, in her situation, to fall in love! She had felt no call to be a teacher; want had forced her to be one. She never thought about her mission in life or the value of education; the most important things to her were, not her scholars nor their instruction, but the examinations.
And how could she think of a mission, and of the value of education? School teachers, and poor doctors, and apothecaries, struggling with their heavy labours, have not even the consolation of thinking that they are advancing an ideal, and helping mankind. Their heads are too full of thoughts of their daily crust of bread, their wood, the bad roads, and their sicknesses for that. Their life is tedious and hard. Only those stand it for any length of time who are silent beasts of burden, like Maria Vasilievna. Those who are sensitive and impetuous and nervous, and who talk of their mission in life and of advancing a great ideal, soon become exhausted and give up the fight.
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To find a dryer, shorter road, Simon sometimes struck across a meadow or drove through a back-yard, but in some places the peasants would not let him pass, in others the land belonged to a priest; here the road was blocked, there Ivan Ionoff had bought a piece of land from his master and surrounded it with a ditch. In such cases they had to turn back.
They arrived at Nijni Gorodishe. In the snowy, grimy yard around the tavern stood rows of wagons laden with huge flasks of oil of vitriol. A great crowd of carriers had assembled in the tavern, and the air reeked of vodka, tobacco, and sheepskin coats. Loud talk filled the room, and the door with its weight and pulley banged incessantly.
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In the tap room behind a partition some one was playing on the concertina without a moment's pause. Maria Vasilievna sat down to her tea, while at a near-by table a group of peasants saturated with tea and the heat of the room were drinking vodka and beer. What's that? By God! Ivan Dementitch, you'll catch it for that! Look, brother! A small, black-bearded, pock-marked peasant, who had been drunk for a long time, gave an exclamation of surprise and swore an ugly oath. My money is as good here as hers. How do you do? Maria Vasilievna enjoyed her tea, and grew as flushed as the peasants.
Her thoughts were once more running on the watchman and the wood. I know her!
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She's a nice lady. The door banged, men came and went. Maria Vasilievna sat absorbed in the same thoughts that had occupied her before, and the concertina behind the partition never ceased making music for an instant. Patches of sunlight that had lain on the floor when she had come in had moved up to the counter, then to the walls, and now had finally disappeared.
So it was afternoon. The carriers at the table next to hers rose and prepared to leave. The little peasant went up to Maria Vasilievna swaying slightly, and held out his hand. The others followed him; all shook hands with the school teacher, and went out one by one. The door banged and whined nine times. It is very wrong to repeat scandal, daddy. What you have just told me is nonsense. People who have no secrets from each other never want for subjects of conversation. They do not weigh their words, for there is nothing to be held back; neither do they seek for something to say.
They talk out of the abundance of the heart, without consideration, just what they think. Blessed are they who attain to such familiar, unreserved intercourse with God. One day at dusk during the tragic, bloody battle at Bataan, a 19—year—old lad from Indiana scribbled in poetic form the burden of his heart. Early the following morning he was killed. The burial detail found his poem:. And if our lines should sag and break Because of things you failed to make, That extra tank, that ship, that plane For which we waited all in vain. Will you then come to take the blame? For we, not you, must pay the cost, Of battles, you, not we, have lost.
I am an empty pew. I vote for the world as against God. I deny the Bible. I mock at the preached Word of God. I rail at Christian fellowship. I laugh at prayer. I break the Fourth Commandment; I am a witness to solemn vows broken. I advise men to eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die. I join my voice with every atheist and rebel against human and divine law. I am a grave in the midst of the congregation. Read my epitaph and be wise. I have nothing to do with tomorrow, My Savior will make that His care.
I have nothing to do with tomorrow, Its burden then why should I share?