daylight revealed in each of them the same bleak astonishment, the same and simple calm. Ricciotti answered, is time to give in, “Now,” “it Maximka. Resistance serves no purpose . . . you know that better than anyone. You can force yourself to suffer the tortures of the damned, but the end will be the same, and furthermore it will be useless. Give in, I tell you.” in to what? that I am an enemy of the people, “Give a traitor, that I killed Tulayev, and I don’t know what else? Repeat that hodge- podge which sounds as if it had been spouted by drunken epileptics?” brother. That or something else, anything they “Confess, want you to. In the first place, you’ll sleep; in the second, you’ll have a slim
daylight revealed in each of them the same bleak astonishment, the same and simple calm. “Now,” Ricciotti answered, “it is time to give in, Maximka. Resistance serves no purpose . . . you know that better than anyone. You can force yourself to suffer the tortures of the damned, but the end will be the same, and furthermore it will be useless. Give in, I tell you.” “Give in to what? that I am an enemy of the people, a traitor, that I killed Tulayev, and I don’t know what else? Repeat that hodge- podge which sounds as if it had been spouted by drunken epileptics?” “Confess, brother. That or something else, anything they want you to. In the first place, you’ll sleep; in the second, you’ll have a slim