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"Your excellency, I beg of you to take care of yourself!" the doctor was beginning, evidently quite familiar with the general's family affairs, and therefore dreading the meeting of husband and wife. "It is not Anna Iurievna. . . ." "Aha!" the sick man interrupted him; "she has come? Very well. Let her come in. Only the little one . . . I don't wish her to come . . . to-day."
The conclusions of the physicians, though they differed completely in detail, were similar in the main, and far from comforting; the life and continued suffering of the sick man could not last more than a few days. In the evening a telegram came from Anna Iurievna; she informed her father that she would be with him on the following day, at five in the afternoon. "Shall I be able to hold out?
Iurievna turned to him, and then turned back again, to her father's body, to the white object shining under the muslin canopy. And once more Olga Vseslavovna's words came into her mind: "The will! In his hands! Take it!" Gently raising the canopy, she softly drew the paper from beneath the general's clasped hands, and unfolded it.
"Take this strange change of his will, for instance," the general's wife continued, not waiting for a clearer expression of sympathy. "Take his manner toward me. And for what reason?" "Yes, it is very sad," murmured the doctor. "Tell me, doctor, does he expect his son and daughter?" "Only his daughter, Anna Iurievna. She promised to come, with her oldest children. A telegram came yesterday.
It was I ... in the night ... the flowers fell .... I was putting them back ... fixing the head of your sainted papa .... It was under his head, the paper ... I thought he wanted to keep it .... I put it in his hands, to be safe! ... Forgive me, Anna Iurievna, if I have done any harm." It was the deacon, still oppressed by a feeling of guilt. Anna.
In the first will he had left nearly everything, with the exception of the family estate, which he did not feel justified in taking from his son, to his second wife and her daughter. Now he wished to restore to his elder children the rights which he had deprived them of, and especially to his eldest daughter, Anna Iurievna Borissova, who was not even mentioned in the first will.
Anna Iurievna resembled her father, as much as a young, graceful, pretty woman can resemble an elderly man with strongly-marked features and athletic frame, such as was General Nazimoff.
By this time the whole household was awake. Anna Iurievna had come in, full of astonishment at the sudden disturbance, but with the same feeling of deep quiet and peace still filling her heart and giving her features an expression of joy and calm. She heard the cry of the general's wife, and the words were recorded in her mind, though she did not at first give them any meaning.
"Take this strange change of his will, for instance," the general's wife continued, not waiting for a clearer expression of sympathy. "Take his manner toward me. And for what reason?" "Yes, it is very sad," murmured the doctor. "Tell me, doctor, does he expect his son and daughter?" "Only his daughter, Anna Iurievna. She promised to come, with her oldest children. A telegram came yesterday.
In the new will, with the exception of the seventh part, the widow's share, he divided the whole of his land and capital between his children equally; and he further appointed a strict guardianship over the property of his little daughter, Olga Iurievna.
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