'Certainly', answered Fomushka; 'only, Snanduliya Samsonovna, how about the shake? There ought to be a shake after my verse.'
`To be sure,' replied Snanduliya, ' you shall have your shake.'
Fomushka began again:
'Has ever lover loved
And known not grief and pain?
What lover has not sighed
And wept and sighed again?'
And then Fimushka;
`The heart is rocked in grief
As a ship floats on the main,
Why was it given, then?'
'For pain! for pain! for pain!
cried Fomushka, and he waited to give Snanduliya time for the shake.
Snanduliya performed the shake.
'For pain! for pain! for pain!'
repeated Fimushka.
And then both together:
'Take, gods, my heart away,
Again! again! again!
Again! again! again!'
And the song wound up with another shake. 'Bravo! bravo!' they all shouted, with the
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