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My old man-nurse was asleep on the floor, and I had to step over him; he waked up, saw me, and told me that my mother had again been very angry with me, and had wished to send after me again, but that my father had prevented her. I told my man that I would undress and go to bed by myself, and I put out the candle. But I did not undress, and did not go to bed.
Mísha flung aside his spade.... "Well, Timósha," he said, addressing his old man-nurse, "let us honour the host.... Come along!" "I obey," replied the old man. And all three wended their way toward the house. The speculator knew with whom he had to deal. The master had made a failure of his attempt. So they might as well let the servant pay the penalty!
"Jas Jas, if you get to cutting up again, I'm going to get me a man-nurse out here honest I am!" "A swig, Teenie." "Please, Jas it's only for bad spells five drops mixed up in your medicine. That's six dollars a bottle, Jas, and only for bad spells." "Stingy gut!" "Looka down there, honey there's old man Wyncoop's cow broke tether again. What you bet he's out looking for her.
Sometimes, near the stove, in the fearful stuffiness of the close ante-room, full of the sour smell of stale kvas, my unshaved man-nurse, Vassily, nicknamed Goose, would sit, playing cards with the coachman, Potap, in a new sheepskin, white as foam, and superb tarred boots, while in the next room Rickmann would sing, behind the partition After my father's death we moved to Moscow for good.
Mísha declared that he would not enter the house, defiled as it was by the presence of a scoundrel; that he would allow no one to throw him out; but that he was on his way to the churchyard to salute the dust of his ancestors. This he did. At the churchyard he was joined by an old house-serf, who had formerly been his man-nurse.
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