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Ah, what a sin, what a sin.
:28:06
Well, where's there's law,
there's injustice.
:28:09
Come on, boy, get up.
:28:11
The maggot eats the cabbage,
yet dies first.
:28:15
What did you say?
:28:16
I say things happen not as we plan,
but as God judges.
:28:20
Have you got a family estate, sir,
and a housewife?
:28:24
Your old parents...
are they still living?
:28:28
Perhaps you've got
little ones, then?
:28:32
Never mind, dear lad.
:28:34
You're young folks yet,
and pray God may have some still.
:28:37
The great thing is
to live in harmony.
:28:40
Well, dear lad...
:28:42
I was still living at home.
:28:44
We had a well-to-do homestead,
a nice piece of land...
:28:47
and a house
that one could thank God for.
:28:50
When Father and we went a-mowin',
there was seven of us.
:28:52
We were real peasants.
We lived well.
:28:55
Well, one day I...
:28:58
I went into someone else's forest
to cut wood.
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But a keeper found me.
:29:03
I was taken before a judge
for trial...
:29:05
flogged and sent
to serve as a soldier.
:29:08
Well, lad, we thought
that was a misfortune...
:29:11
but that turned out
to be a blessing.
:29:14
You see, if it hadn't been
for my sin...
:29:16
my brother would've gone instead
of me, and he's got five little ones.
:29:20
Whereas I only had
a wife to leave behind.
:29:23
We had a little girl, but God took her
before I left for the wars.
:29:28
You've had hard luck.
:29:31
We can make it into misery
or into joy.
:29:34
Our luck's like
water in a dragnet.
:29:36
You pull at it,
and it bulges.
:29:38
But when you've drawn it out,
there's nothing in it.
:29:41
That's how it is, dear boy.
:29:44
Well, now I think
it's time to sleep.
:29:52
Lord Jesus Christ,
holy Saint Nicholas, Frola and Lavra.
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Lord Jesus Christ,
have mercy upon us and save us.