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Avdotya was given three waggons and three peasants; a fourth who said that he was "more competent than they were," volunteered to join them and she went with them to the inn where she found her own labourers and the servant Fetinya in a state of great confusion and alarm. Naum's newly hired labourers, three very stalwart young men, had come in the morning and had not left the place since.
"Murderer, robber.... She is not enough for you, you want to take my house, too, and everything.... But no, stop a bit ... that can't be.... I'll go myself, I'll speak myself ... how ... why should she sell it? Wait a bit, wait a bit." And he dashed out bareheaded. "Where are you off to, Akim Ivanitch?" said the servant Fetinya, running into him in the doorway. "To our mistress! Let me pass!
In spite of the help of the "competent" man, who turned out, however, only capable of walking about with a stick in his hand, looking at the others and spitting on the ground, she was not able to get it finished that day and stayed the night at the inn, begging Fetinya to spend the night in her room.
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