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If she were taken away from it she would die. We both should." "That matter is settled then, little sister. You two, Veroshka and you, will accept the gift from me, won't you?" "I will if Veroshka agrees." "Agreed, dear sister. You are not so proud as Granny," he said, as he kissed her forehead. "What is agreed?" suddenly grumbled Tatiana Markovna. "You have accepted?
Marfinka drew closer to Raisky, and looked down indifferently on the familiar picture. "Come down!" he said suddenly, and seized her hand. "No, I am afraid," she answered trembling, and drew back. "I won't let you fall. Do you think I can't take care of you?" "Not at all, but I am afraid. Veroshka has no fear, but goes down alone, even in the dusk.
Vera came that night to supper with a gloomy face. She eagerly drank a glass of milk, but offered no remark to anyone. "Why are you so unhappy, Veroshka?" asked her aunt. "Don't you feel well." "I was afraid to ask," interposed Tiet Nikonich politely. "I could not help noticing, Vera Vassilievna, that you have been altered for some time; you seem to have grown thinner and paler.
But she felt she must control herself, and hastened to present Marfinka with the bouquet. "What a lovely bouquet! And what is this?" asked Marfinka as she felt a hard substance, and discovered the holder set with her name and the pearls. "You, too, Veroshka! How is it you all love me so? I love you all, how I love you! But how and when you found out that I did, I cannot think."
Marfinka, a rosy little girl of four, was often self-willed, and often cried, but before the tears were dry she was laughing and shouting again. Veroshka rarely wept, and then quietly. She soon recovered, but she did not like to be told to beg pardon. Boris's aunt wondered, as she saw him gay and serious by turns, what occupied his mind; she wondered what he did all day long.
She was maid to the grandchildren, Veroshka and Marfinka. Close at her heels the twelve-year-old assistant, and together they brought the children to breakfast. Never knowing which of the two to kiss first, Tatiana Markovna would begin: "Well, my birdies, how are you? Veroshka, darling, you have brushed your hair?" "And me, Granny, me," Marfinka would cry. "Why are Marfinka's eyes red?
"This is how I draw now," said Marfinka, handing him a drawing of a bunch of flowers. "Splendid, little sister! Is it done from nature?" "Yes, from nature. I can make wax-flowers, too." "And do you play or sing?" "I play the piano." "And does Veroshka draw and play?" Marfinka shook her head. "Does she like needlework? No? Then is she fond of reading?" "Yes, she reads a great deal.
Veroshka opened a press and put her little face inside, and a musty, dusty smell came from the shelves, laden with old-fashioned caftans and embroidered uniforms with big buttons. Raisky shivered. "Granny was right!" he laughed. "It is uncanny here." "But everything here is so beautiful!" cried Vera, "the great pictures and the books!" "Pictures? Where? I don't remember. Bravo, little Veroshka."
Veroshka and Marfinka play here under my eyes, in the sand. One cannot trust any nurse." They reached the yard. "Kirusha, Eromka, Matroshka, where have you all hidden yourselves? One of you come here." Matroshka appeared, and announced that Kirusha and Eromka had gone into the village to fetch the peasants. "Here is Matroshka. Do you remember her? What are you staring there for, fool.
See here are my receipts and expenditure," she said, thrusting towards another big ledger which he waved away. "But I believe all you say, Granny," he said. "Send for a clerk and tell him to make out a deed, by which I give the house, the land, and all that belongs to it to my dear cousins, Veroshka and Marfinka, as dowry."
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