The Scarlet Flower by Vsevolod Garshin
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Overview: It was already dark when we crossed a narrow channel of the Danube by a small bridge and stepped upon a low sandy island still wet from the recent ebb. I remember the clank of the bayonets of soldiers colliding in the dark, the clatter of the artillery racing to overtake us, the black mass of the broad river, the lights on the opposite bank where we had to cross the next day, and thought of the first battle that that day would bring.
“Better not to think of it, and go to sleep,” I decided, and lay down in the damp sand.
The sun stood high when I opened my eyes. The sandy bank was crowded with troops, baggage trains, and parks of artillery; gun emplacements and little ditches for the infantry had already been dug at the water’s edge; on the steep bluff across the Danube orchards and vineyards could be made out where our troops were bustling about; beyond them rose the heights, which sharply narrowed the horizon. About two miles to the right the white houses and minarets of Sistovo loomed upon the hillsides. A steamboat with a barge in tow ferried battalion after battalion to the other side. At our bank a little torpedo-boat lay hissing.
“Happy landing, Ivanov!” Fyodorov greeted me. “Same to you. But we haven’t crossed yet, have we?” “The steamboat will soon come and take us. They say a Turkish monitor is hanging
about somewhere; see, they’ve got this little samovar ready for her,” he said, pointing to the torpedo-boat. “The number of casualties, my God!” he proceeded in a changed tone. “They’ve been bringing them over without a stop___”
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
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