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The limpid voice of Fedya Mazin slowly quivered in the air. "'In mortal strife " he began the song. "'You victims fell " answered thick, subdued voices. The words dropped in two heavy sighs. People stepped forward, each footfall audible. A new song, determined and resolute, burst out: "You yielded up your lives for them." Fedya's voice wreathed and curled like a bright ribbon.
Even her fondest hopes came to nothing; her husband considered that it was much more suitable to intrust Fedya's education to Glafira. Ivan Petrovitch's poor wife could not bear this blow, she could not bear a second separation; in a few days, without a murmur, she quietly passed away. All her life she had never been able to oppose anything, and she did not struggle against her illness.
Only mind what you're about over the ruts, and easy a little; don't tip the cart over, and upset the master's stomach! The other Horkies smiled at Fedya's sally. 'Lift Astronomer in! Mr. Polutikin called majestically. Fedya, not without amusement, lifted the dog, who wore a forced smile, into the air, and laid her at the bottom of the cart. Vasya let the horse go. We rolled away.
But the calm words of Pavel and Andrey had sounded so fearless and firm, as if uttered in the little house of the suburb, and not in the presence of the court. Fedya's hot, youthful sally amused her; something bold and fresh grew up in the hall, and she guessed from the movement of the people back of her that she was not the only one who felt this. "Your opinion," said the old judge.
He danced, at times skipping boldly, and then dropping his little bald head with his scraggy neck stretched out as if he were dying, stamping his feet on the ground, and sometimes bending his knees with obvious difficulty. A voice cracked with age came from his toothless mouth. Radilov must have guessed from the expression of my face that Fedya's 'art' did not give me much pleasure.
"You haven't heard where his wife is now?" "She was lately in Paris; now, they say, she has gone away to Italy." "It is terrible, indeed Fedya's position; I wonder how he can bear it. Every one, of course, has trouble; but he, one may say, has been made the talk of all Europe." Gedeonovsky sighed. "Yes, indeed, yes, indeed.
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