![]() ![]() They hauled him home and put him into his bed, and there he lay, very ill indeed. Soon after Peter renewed his note, Pavel strained himself lifting timbers for a new barn, and fell over among the shavings with such a gush of blood from the lungs that his fellow-workmen thought he would die on the spot. Now everything was plastered with mortgages. He only knew that he had first borrowed two hundred dollars, then another hundred, then fifty-that each time a bonus was added to the principal, and the debt grew faster than any crop he planted. Peter could give no very clear account of his transactions with Cutter. His creditor was Wick Cutter, the merciless Black Hawk moneylender, a man of evil name throughout the county, of whom I shall have more to say later. ![]() Shimerda: he was unable to meet a note which fell due on the first of November had to pay an exorbitant bonus on renewing it, and to give a mortgage on his pigs and horses and even his milk cow. ![]() WHILE THE AUTUMN color was growing pale on the grass and cornfields, things went badly with our friends the Russians. ![]()
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