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converting liim, and leading him into the way of truth and
righteousness, but he was repulsed in a shameful manner. Soon
P. P. stopped going to church, and began openly to preach
a life according to the Gospel, and to criticise the immoral life
of the surrounding people.
The Stundists now only needed to come and take him into
their community. Five years have passed since then. P. P. has
had during this time to sit in prison for his views, and once
more to march into the town, this time as a prisoner, with the
étape transport, to answer charges before the Archbishop. All,
young and old, scoff at him now; his neighbours regard him as
a peculiar man; the young fellows play him many disagreeable
tricks, but he bears it all with the stoical calm of a
philosopher. He has grown old and grey, his thin whiskers
still hanging down from his wasted and wrinkled cheeks.
Though bowed with age somewhat, he still retains his stately
gait and majestic bearing; only the sharp, commanding
tone has disappeared. If you visit him in the morning
you will hear him and his wife sing a morning hymn together,
another before their meal, and at night an evensong. The
military instinct is still strong within him, and he sings with
special enthusiasm such hymns as are couched in martial
strains, such as “Ho my comrades, see the signal, waving from
the sky,” &c.
In the Stundist community he is highly respected and even
feared, for no one speaks out the truth in the face of everyone
more boldly and sincerely than does our naval officer, Panars
Pantilimonovitch.
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