Leskov's "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk"

Started "The Sealed Angel" (full of Old Believers, icons and a storyteller) today, but this is the fantastic ending from "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk."


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     "A hook! Throw them a hook!" they shouted on the ferry.
     A heavy hook on a long rope soared up and fell into the water. Sonetka could no longer be seen. Two seconds later, borne away from the ferry by the swift current, she again flailed her arms; but at the same moment, out of another wave, Katerina Lvovna rose up almost to the waist, threw herself on Sonetka like a strong pike on a soft-finned little roach, and neither of them appeared again.

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