Quotation from: A Set of Six

Written by: Joseph Conrad


On the outskirts of a village half buried in the snow an old wooden
barn burned with a clear and an immense flame. The sacred battalion
of skeletons, muffled in rags, crowded greedily the windward side,
stretching hundreds of numbed, bony hands to the blaze. Nobody had
noted their approach. Before entering the circle of light playing on the
sunken, glassy-eyed, starved faces, Colonel D'Hubert spoke in his turn:


"Here's your musket, Colonel Feraud. I can walk better than you."

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Part of a series of experiments in web preservation under the direction of Michael L. Nelson, Ph.D.