Classics fantasy – 9

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A. Belyaev. Classics fantasy – 9

THE EARTH BURNS

WHEN LIGHT GOES OUT

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In the Business yard, in a reception of the chairman of VSNKh of the USSR, among visitors there was an elderly person with the face rubbed for years and life and in a shabby coat. Having taken seat in a corner, he sat not movably, expecting when reception begins.

The door of an office opened, and the secretary looked out from there. It eyes recalculated turn of people with portfolios and papers in hands. Several people darted off and approached it. But the person was ahead of all in a shabby coat.

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– With it it was more difficult to cope, than with old Panas – smiling, Markov told Marishkin. – Nevertheless the Inhabitant of Tula understood it.

– Still. Easier, as they say, for soul to leave a body, than to Kondrat Semenychu from “Dawns”.

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