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Updated: June 5, 2025
Poor Akulina, on hearing the joiner's wife talking so unkindly of her husband, could hardly suppress the tears, and, the tirade continuing, she at last became angry, and wished she could in some way punish her.
"But I could not borrow of him besides, if he knew it was for the Count and he is so rough he would not give it to us." "We shall see," answered the other, who knew his man. "Wait a moment. He is still inside." He re-entered the shop, where Fischelowitz and his wife were conversing under the gaslight. "I tell you," Akulina was saying, "that it is high time you got rid of him.
"We part on good terms, though you might have said a word for me just now." "He dare not!" cried Akulina. "And as for the doll, if you will give it to me, I promise you that you shall have your fifty marks to-morrow." "Oho! He knows where to get fifty marks, now!" exclaimed Akulina, viciously.
In the short silence which ensued while Akulina was resting her lungs for a second and more deadly effort, the wretched little musical box made itself heard, clicking and scratching and grinding out a miserable little polka. At the sound, the sunny smile returned to the tobacconist's face.
He lighted his pipe with a very imposing air, and spit several times on the floor before he replied. Still retaining his pompous manner, he said, "She has ordered me to go to a certain merchant in the town and collect a considerable sum of money." "You to collect money?" questioned Akulina.
"He went a long time ago," answered Akulina, and looking around with an expression of fear on her face, she added, "He may have fallen asleep somewhere on the way." About this time the joiner's wife, with hair unkempt and clothes bedraggled, went up to the loft to gather the linen which she had previously put there to dry.
From the strip that had been reaped floated a soft song which broke off at the very beginning. It was too hot to sing. "They say you have put up a new hut for Akulina," said Pelagea. Yegor did not speak. "So she is dear to you...." "It's your luck, it's fate!" said the huntsman, stretching. "You must put up with it, poor thing.
Akulina set her fat hands on her hips and held her head a little on one side. She had plenty of curiosity in her composition. "Well, I must say," she observed, "for a man who is not in a hurry about anything, you are uncommonly brisk with your feet. If it is only a matter of business, I daresay I will do as well as my husband." "Oh, I daresay," admitted Schmidt, scratching his head.
Polikey still sat on the bed in his corner, glaring wildly about him, and smiling bitterly. He did not reply for a long time, and Akulina again cried: "Eh? Illitch! Why don't you answer me? Why don't you speak?" Finally he said: "Akulina, I delivered the money to our mistress; and oh, how she thanked me!"
He stooped, for he was much taller than she, and closing his tired eyes for a moment, he pressed his lips upon her waxen forehead. Before he had seen the bright blush that glowed in her cheeks, he had entered the shop. Akulina was seated in one corner, apparently in a bad humour, for her dark face was flushed, and her small eyes looked up savagely at the Count.
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