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Chapter 3

           Hopingtoenteronanentirelynewlifequiteunliketheoldone,heexpectedeverythingtobeunusual,evenmoreunusualthanwhathewasseeing.Askull,acoffin,theGospel—itseemedtohimthathehadexpectedallthisandevenmore.Tryingtostimulatehisemotionshelookedaround.“God,death,love,thebrotherhoodofman,”hekeptsayingtohimself,associatingthesewordswithvagueyetjoyfulideas.Thedooropenedandsomeonecamein.

           Bythedimlight,towhichPierrehadalreadybecomeaccustomed,hesawarathershortman.Havingevidentlycomefromthelightintothedarkness,themanpaused,thenmovedwithcautiousstepstowardthetableandplacedonithissmallleather-glovedhands.

           Thisshortmanhadonawhiteleatherapronwhichcoveredhischestandpartofhislegs;hehadonakindofnecklaceabovewhichroseahighwhiteruffle,outlininghisratherlongfacewhichwaslitupfrombelow.

           “Forwhathaveyoucomehither?”askedthenewcomer,turninginPierre’sdirectionataslightrustlemadebythelatter.“Whyhaveyou,whodonotbelieveinthetruthofthelightandwhohavenotseenthelight,comehere?Whatdoyouseekfromus?Wisdom,virtue,enlightenment?”

           Atthemomentthedooropenedandthestrangercamein,Pierrefeltasenseofaweandvenerationsuchashehadexperiencedinhisboyhoodatconfession;hefelthimselfinthepresenceofonesociallyacompletestranger,yetnearertohimthroughthebrotherhoodofman.

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