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The Peasants
The Peasants by Władysław Reymont, available in Auren as a public-domain ebook in the United States.
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“World without end!—What, my good Agatha? And whither be you wandering now?”
“Out into the world, please your Reverence, into the wide world!” she answered, with a wave of her staff from east to west.
The priest mechanically turned his eyes in that direction, but closed them to the blinding sun in the western sky. Then he said, in a lower and somewhat hesitating tone:
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