The book Peter And Alexis: the Romance of Peter the Great was written by author Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky Here you can read free online of Peter And Alexis: the Romance of Peter the Great book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Peter And Alexis: the Romance of Peter the Great a good or bad book?
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Strike him with a stick, it won't kiU, but make a man of him ! " Alexis shrank in bodily fear from the blows, " He will kill, maim me"; but the moral suffering and shame he had groMOi used to. At times a hard joy kindled within him, " Well ! what of it ! Strike me, it is you who are shamed, not I," he seemed to say to his father, fixing on him a look at once infinitely submissive and infinitely insolent. His father probably divined this, for he ceased beating 254 PETER AND ALEXIS him and devise...d another pun ishment. He broke off all inter- course with him. When Alexis addressed him, he remained silent, pretended not to hear, looked past him, as into space. The silence would last weeks, months, years. Alexis was conscious of it at all times and wherever he went. It grew more intolerable, more insulting than scolding, more terrible than blows. He felt it to be slow murder, a cruelty which neither man nor God could wipe out. This sheer silence was the end of everything. Beyond, there was nothing but darkness, and through the darkness he saw the immovable face of his father, motionless as a stone mask, as it had appeared at their last inter- view.
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