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A Night s
Lodging 299
robbed of energy and will; and conditions always
conspire to thrust them back into the depths.
When Natasha and Vaska are about to start out on
the road to a new life, fate overtakes them. The
girl, during a scene with her heartless sister, is ter
ribly scalded by the latter, and Faska, rushing to
the defense of his sweetheart, encounters her
brutal brother-in-law, whom he accidentally kills.
Thus these
"
superfluous ones
"
go down in the
struggle. Not because of their vicious or degrad
ing tendencies ; on the contrary, it is their better in
stincts that cause them to be swept back into the
abyss. But though they perish, the inspiration of
Luka is not entirely lost. It is epitomized in the
words of one of the victims.
Sahtin. The old man he lived from within. . . .
He saw everything with his own eyes. ... I asked him
once: "Grandfather, why do men really live?" . . .
"
Man lives ever to give birth to strength. There live,
for example, the carpenters, noisy, miserable people . . .
and suddenly in their midst is a carpenter born . . . such
a carpenter as the world has never seen : he is above all,
no other carpenter can be compared to him. He gives a
new face to the whole trade . . . his own face, so to
speak . . . and with that simple impulse it has advanced
twenty years . . . and so the others live . . . the lock
smiths and the shoemakers, and all the rest of the work
ing people . . . and the same is true of other classes
all to give birth to strength. Everyone thinks that he for
himself takes up room in the world, but it turns out that
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