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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sachii" data-source="post: 9058592" data-attributes="member: 126652">page 7“Look how people have grown in our day! Altynai Sulaimanovna is anacademician, known throughout the country. Practically all of us have asecondary education, and many a higher education. Today we have opened anew secondary school in our village, and that alone shows how greatly our lifehas changed. May the sons and daughters of Kurkureu always be among thebest-educated people of their day! Let us drink to this.”The party became noisy and jolly again as everyone drank the toast. Altynai alone appeared disturbed and ill at ease, and took no more than a sip of her wine. No one noticed it though everyone was in high spirits, talking and laughing.Altynai glanced at her wristwatch again and again. And afterwards, when thewhole party came out for a breath of fresh air, I saw her standing apart from therest, her intent gaze on the hill where the yellowed poplars were swaying gentlyin the breeze. The sun was sinking where the sky met the blurred lilac line of thesteppe. Its waning light stained the crowns of the poplars a dull, sorrowfulpurple.I went up to Altynai.“They are shedding their leaves now, but you ought to see them in spring whenthey are bursting info leaf!”“I've been thinking of it too.” she said with a sigh, and after a pause added, as ifspeaking to herself: “Yes, all living things have their spring and their autumn.”Her aging face looked pensive and sad. She was gazing at the poplars with avery feminine sort of regret. The academician had vanished; this was just anordinary, unsophisticated Kirghiz woman, guileless in both sorrow and joy. Sheseemed to be lost in memories of her youth, which, as our songs say, cannot becalled back even if you call from the tallest mountain. I believe she wanted totell me something as she stood gazing at the poplars, but changing her mind shehastily put on the spectacles she was holding in her hand.“I believe the Moscow train goes through at eleven, doesn't it?” she asked.“It does.”</blockquote>

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