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Updated: June 3, 2025
'The wood-spirit does not shriek; it is dumb, put in Ilyusha; 'it only claps its hands and rattles. 'And have you seen it then, the wood-spirit? Fedya asked him ironically. 'No, I have not seen it, and God preserve me from seeing it; but others have seen it.
The countess, in dismay, looked up to heaven, clasped her hands, and turned angrily to her husband. "That comes of your talking!" said she. But the count had already recovered from his excitement. "Come, come!" said he. "Here's a fine warrior! No! Nonsense! You must study." "It's not nonsense, Papa. Fedya Obolenski is younger than I, and he's going too.
The patriot had already a great contempt for his fellow-countrymen. Ivan Petrovitch's system was applied in its full force only to Fedya; his education really underwent a "radical reformation;" his father devoted himself exclusively to it. Until Ivan Petrovitch's return from abroad, Fedya was, as already related, in the hands of Glafira Petrovna.
'But they say, continued Kostya, 'that Akulina threw herself into the river because her lover had deceived her. 'Yes, that was it. 'And do you remember Vasya? added Kostya, mournfully. 'What Vasya? asked Fedya. 'Why, the one who was drowned, replied Kostya, in this very river. Ah, what a boy he was! What a boy he was! His mother, Feklista, how she loved him, her Vasya!
The life of Nilovna flowed on with strange placidity. This calmness sometimes astonished her. There was her son immured in prison. She knew that a severe sentence awaited him, yet every time the idea of it came to her mind her thoughts strayed to Andrey, Fedya, and an endless series of other people she had never seen, but only heard of.
'No, I said aloud, 'I don't want the cart; I shall want to be near your homestead to-morrow, and if you will let me, I will stay the night in your hay-barn. 'You are very welcome. But will you be comfortable in the barn? I will tell the women to lay a sheet and put you a pillow.... Hey, girls! he cried, getting up from his place; 'here, girls!... And you, Fedya, go with them.
In Russian Fedya called his father thou, but did not dare to sit down in his presence. The "system" dazed the boy, confused and cramped his intellect, but his health on the other hand was benefited by the new manner of his life; at first he fell into a fever but soon recovered and began to grow stout and strong.
I have the money already, but I might go per etappe. You know I am also awaiting a sentence. Evidently they are going to send me to Siberia, too. I will then declare that I desire to be exiled to the same locality that he will be." Behind them was heard the voice of Sizov: "Then give him regards from me, from Sizov. He will know. I'm Fedya Mazin's uncle."
'Did Fedor conduct himself properly in prison? I wanted to know what is meant by proper behavior in prison, and he declared: 'Well, did he blab anything he shouldn't have against his comrades? And when I told him that Fedya was an honest and wise young man, he stroked his beard and declared proudly: 'We, the Sizovs, have no trash in our family."
They walked to the grill; the mother shed tears as she pressed the hand of her son. He and Fedya spoke words, smiled, and joked. All were excited, but light and cheerful. The women wept; but, like Vlasova, more from habit than grief. They did not experience the stunning pain produced by an unexpected blow on the head, but only the sad consciousness that they must part with the children.
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