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Updated: June 27, 2025
On the strength of these jet-black eyes and the well-shaped nose, to say nothing of the colporteur and the Bible, Lancey and I struck up quite an intimate friendship, insomuch that at parting, little Dob gave me a familiar dab on the face, and Ivanka turned up her sweet little mouth to be kissed quite readily and of her own accord. There is nothing on earth so captivating as a trustful child.
When Marika told him of the death of their two children he was not so much overwhelmed as she had anticipated. "I'm not so sure that you are right, Marika," he said, after a long sad pause. "That our darling boy is now in heaven I doubt not, for you saw him killed. But you did not see Ivanka killed, and what you call her death-shriek may not have been her last.
Here, then, was a piece of news for my mother and family! for we had regularly adopted Ivanka, and the dear child was to act that very day as one of Bella's bridesmaids. I immediately told my mother, but resolved to say nothing to Ivanka, Nicholas, or Bella, till the ceremony was over.
Your brother told me that he said he would never, never, never be so wicked as to let you come and see him, although he loved you so much that he " "Hush, my dear child, not so loud." Bella's whisper died away, and Ivanka resumed "Yes, he said there was almost nothing of him left. He was joking, you know, when he said that, but it is not so much of a joke after all, for I saw "
Lancey admitted that he might, perhaps, have been a little harsh in expressing himself, and then went off to prepare for the journey. "We are going back again to your own country, Ivanka," said I, gently stroking the child's head, as we sat together in the same room, some hours later. Ivanka raised her large eyes to mine. "There is no home now," she said, in a mournful voice.
"What child is that?" added my mother quickly, observing Ivanka. "It is the daughter of Dobri Petroff. Let me introduce you, Ivanka, to my mother, and to my sister Bella you know Bella?" I had of course written to them a good deal about the poor child, and Bella had already formed an attachment to her in imagination. She started up on hearing Ivanka's name, and held out both hands.
In a few minutes we had come to a turn in the path which brought the cottage full into view, and I experienced a sudden shock on observing that part of it that part which had been the forge was a blackened ruin. I was at the same moment relieved, however, by the sight of Ivanka and little Dobri, who were playing together in front of the uninjured part of the cottage.
Meanwhile I had a long chat with his wife and the little ones, from whom I learned the sad details of the sufferings they had undergone since we last met. "But you won't leave us now, will you?" said little Ivanka pitifully, getting on my knee and nestling on my breast; "you will stay with father, won't you, and help to take care of us? I'm so frightened!"
He paused; the light vein of humour which he had tried to assume passed off, and there was a twitching about the muscles of his mouth as he resumed "No, Bella must never see me again." Ivanka looked from the invalid's face to mine with eyes so earnest, piercing, and inquiring, that I felt grieved she did not understand us.
"I don't know what you could do in those circumstances, but I know what you can do now, and that is, pack your portmanteau and prepare to take Ivanka to Venilik. The child must be at once restored to her parents. I cannot bear to think of their remaining in ignorance of her being alive.
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