Chapter 9: June 11th: How I Thank You for Our Walk to the Islands Yesterday, Makar Alexievitch!

June 11th: How I Thank You for Our Walk to the Islands Yesterday, Makar Alexievitch! June 11th. How I thank you for our walk to the Islands yesterday, Makar Alexievitch! How fresh and pleasant, how full of verdure, was everything! And I had not seen anything green for such a long time! During my illness I used to think that I should never get better, that I was certainly going to die. Judge, then, how I felt yesterday! True, I may have seemed to you a little sad, and you must not be angry…