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The wicked girl tasted one of the apples; she had never eaten anything so delicious in her life, neither had her mother. How they regretted not having any more! "Mother," said Katinka, "give me my fur cloak. I will go to the forest and find the tree, and whether I am permitted or not I will shake it so hard that all the apples will be ours." The mother tried to stop her.
If this was the result of the washing of a single pan and he could now easily imagine that other flakes might have escaped what But he stopped, dazed and bewildered at the bare suggestion. He gazed upon the vanishing figure of "mammy." Could she could Katinka have the least suspicion of the possibilities of this discovery?
A spoiled child listens to nothing. Katinka wrapped herself in her fur cloak, drew the hood over her head, and hastened to the forest. Everything was covered with snow; there was not even a footpath. Katinka lost her way, but she pushed on, spurred by pride and covetousness. She spied a light in the distance.
The houses are painted white, and the beams of oak are painted black. On the principal cross-beams are inscriptions from the Bible, cut in the oak, and the names of the people who built the house. There is one: "Joseph and Katinka, worthy of the grace of God, on whom He cannot fail to shower blessings. For they believe in Him."
There was once a woman who was left a widow with two children. The elder, who was only her stepdaughter, was named Dobrunka; the younger, who was as wicked as her mother, was called Katinka. The mother worshiped her daughter, but she hated Dobrunka, simply because she was as beautiful as her sister was ugly.
He was willing, and all that was yet necessary was the consent of a countess. Our business requires the consent of a baroness that is, of Katinka hugom." "To what must I give my consent?" "That the conditions relating to the Nameless Castle shall continue the same as heretofore." "Nameless Castle? Conditions? What does that mean? I should like very much to know."
Then turning to Katinka, he changed the subject by asking her if she would favor him with some music. Without a word, the girl seated herself at the piano and played. When she had finished the piece, she began another without stopping, and continued steadily for an hour.
It was no secret that the count was banished from the capital. "The chief of his enemies," Jack went on, "is the governor, Count Smerskoff. He wishes to marry the Countess Katinka, and because the count refuses he will try to injure him and to obtain his exile to Siberia." "I will kill him," the coachman said. "I will slay him in the middle of his soldiers.
"It is none of your business where I came from or whither I am going." She plunged into the forest. January frowned and raised his staff above his head. In the twinkling of an eye the sky was overcast, the fire went out, the snow fell, and the wind blew. Katinka could not see the way before her. She lost herself, and vainly tried to retrace her steps. The snow fell and the wind blew.
Dobrunka gathered a large bouquet, thanked the Twelve Months, and joyfully ran home. You can imagine the astonishment of Katinka and the stepmother. The fragrance of the violets filled the whole house. "Where did you find these fine things?" asked Katinka, in a disdainful voice. "Up yonder, on the mountain," answered her sister. "It looked like a great blue carpet under the bushes."
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