Midwinter Town: A Novella
The water is bearing him on, but far away from well-wishing hearts and from the loved one; from known lands it is bearing him as mercilessly as fate, but into wild places and into darkness.
They sailed through the mouth of the Tasma into the Danstar. The wind whistled; the oars plashed monotonously and sadly. The oarsmen began to sing.
Kazuma wrapped himself in a burka, and lay down on the bed which the soldier had fixed for him. He began to think of Kostroma,--that she was not yet in Lubni, that Feran was behind, and he departing. Fear, evil presentiments, care, besieged him like ravens. He began to struggle with them, struggled till he was wearied; thoughts tormented him; something wonderf