As usual in such cases I was told that either I must go back to bed or go to school in the afternoon.
I said I would rather go to school. I had formed a plan. I dared not go to Kromer without money.
I had to get possession of the little savings box which belonged to me.
There was not enough money in it, far from enough, I knew; but it was still a little,
and something told me that a little was better than nothing; for at least Kromer had to be appeased.
I felt horrible as I crept in my socks into my mother’s room and took my box from her writing table;
but it was not so horrible as the previous day’s experience.
My heart beat so fast I nearly died, and it was no better when I found, at the first look, down below on the stairs, that the box was locked.
It was easy to break it open, it was only necessary to cut through a thin plate of tin;
but the action caused me pain, for only in doing this was I committing theft.
Up to then I had only taken lumps of sugar and fruit on the sly.
Now I had stolen something, although it was my own money.
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