Nosov’s arched fox-tree in brief summary
In the middle of summer, the hayfields began to boil over the Desna. Immediately on the shore we mowed out a clearing for the brigade camp, weaved from the lozenge low show booths, each to his family, at a distance, tore the kazan into the general kulesh, and so many hayfields arose temporarily. There was a hut in Anfisa with her mother. Anfisk grew up in Dobrovodye, no one noticed anything special about her: thin-legged, lazy-eyed. In one year the field company withdrew from the bottom any military scrap. In the Anfiskina cottage, a field engineer lieutenant stopped at the station. Month after three companies starred. And at Anfiski, a little boy was born on New Year’s Eve.
There were days. Collective farm harvest is over, and the mowers that night crossed to the other bank of the Desna dismantle fissile: meadows, inconvenient for cleaning brigade, chairman Chepurin distributed to backyard mowing. Already in the twilight Anfisa and his son were lit by a fire, eating fried
Soon Anfisa was mowing widely and greedily. Listening, the grunting noise of the motorcycle caught. He skidded past, then stopped, for a long time he was silent, again zastrekotal, coming back. He emerged into the clearing. A tall man came out of the shadows of the bushes. On the white cap she recognized Chepurin – and froze. “Help, is it?” “I myself,” Anfiska said quietly.
Long and tensely silent. Suddenly Chepurin flung out his cigarette butt and went to the motorcycle. But he did not leave, but pulled out his scythe and silently began to mow directly from the wheels of the motorcycle, Anfisa was confused. She rushed to wake Vitka, then quietly, as if stealing, went to the unfinished sweep and began mowing, all the while getting lost. I remembered how, in the spring, he had
The moon, rising to its zenith, heated up to a blinding blue, the sky parted, gently brightened and spilled now into the forest, into the clearing with a trembling-smoky blue lightfall. It seemed that the air itself began to gently and tensely elicit from her frantic glow.
… They lay on a heap of mown grass, moist and warm.
“I do not want you to leave…” Anfisa detained his hand on her shoulder and moved closer. I remembered how she had been thinking about this man all those years. Once I saw a motorcycle on the road. A strange man and a woman were traveling. He is behind the wheel, and she is behind: she grabbed him, pressed her cheek to her back. She would have gone the same way. And though I knew that I would never be there, but I tried everything on my own.
Chepurin told how in Berlin he had already thrown a grenade at him, as he lay in the hospital. As he returned from the war, he studied, got married, became chairman.
Then they took a bite. In the east timidly, bloodlessly brightened.
“Yes…” Chepurin summed up something and jerked to his feet. “Take Vityushka, let’s go.” – “No, Pasha,” Anfisa went down, “go alone.”
Bickering, but go together Anfisa refused flatly. Chepurin put on Vityushka his jacket, strapped it around his belt, and carried it into a stroller. He started a motorcycle and already at the wheel he caught her glance, closed his eyes and sat like that… Then he sharply turned the gas knob.
The gum fell in a fog. Anfisa sailed, trying not to splash, listened. From somewhere came the barely perceptible hum of a motorcycle.
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