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It had been the cause of serious disaster to the porter in the first instance, it had next represented to Fischelowitz a dead loss in money of fifty marks, it had become a thorn in the side to Akulina, it had led to one of the most violent quarrels she had ever engaged in with her husband, its limp and broken form had cost much broken crockery and some broken furniture to the host of the "Green Wreath Inn," had been the cause of several ponderous blows dealt and received by Dumnoff, had produced the violent fall, upon a hard board floor, of a porter and two policemen and had ultimately brought the Count to prison for the night.
"But, good Heavens, Frau Fischelowitz, you said you were quite sure he was coming home at once! Now I have lost all this time!" Schmidt had risen quickly to his feet, in considerable anxiety and haste. Akulina smiled good-humouredly.
"If you mean to say that the Count's valuable help has not been to our advantage " began Fischelowitz, making a desperate effort to give a more pleasant look to things. "Oh, I know that," laughed Akulina, scornfully. "I know that the Count, as you call him, can make his two thousand a day as well as any one. I am not blind.
It has been seen also that the events connected with the Gigerl's first appearance in the shop had been of a nature to irritate Akulina still more. The dislike nourished in her stout bosom through long months and years now approached the completion of its development, and manifested itself as a form of active hatred.
I only hope that if any other poor gentleman should ever take my place you will not make his position harder than it would naturally be, and I trust that all may be well with you." "I never meant it, Herr Graf," said Akulina, awkwardly, as she took his proffered hand. He turned to the Cossack. "Good-bye, Johann Schmidt, good-bye. I shall see you again, before long.
"I only wish you to understand," he said, speaking to Akulina, "that when a gentleman gives his word he keeps it. Will you do me the favour to count the money?" "Of course, it is no business of ours to find out how he got it," observed Akulina, rising and coming forward.
Unable longer to control her grief, she burst into violent weeping, which served to increase the amusement of the joiner's wife, who had not forgotten the morning's squabble, and she laughed loudly at her neighbor's woe. About half an hour had passed when the youngest child began to cry and Akulina arose to feed it.
Akulina knocked it from the counter into the farthest corner of the shop." "Tell us all about it," said Schmidt, more interested than ever. "Ah, that that is quite another matter," answered the Count, reddening perceptibly as he remembered Akulina's furious abuse. "If you do not, I have no doubt that she will," said Dumnoff, taking another sip.
"I am sorry," said Grabofsky, "to hear you call him mad, since my business is with him, Barina, and not with you." His tone was, if possible, more incisive than before. "Of course, we know that he is not a Count at all," said Akulina, somewhat annoyed by his sharpness. "Do you? Then you are singularly mistaken.
He spoke the last sentence so softly that Akulina became quieted in her mind, thinking that perhaps their mistress intended to reward her husband. "Say that I will come immediately," he said. But Polikey failed to follow the girl, and went instead to another place. From the porch of his house there was a ladder reaching to the attic.
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