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The day following the events in the kretschma, little Jacob had wandered, in company with some Christian playmates, through the village, and seeing the door of a barn wide open, his childish curiosity got the better of his discretion, and he peeped in.
Hence, even with a genial sun and a southern climate, the fields were barren, the crops poor and the people sunk in abject poverty. The dilapidated inn, or kretschma, was known in the vicinity by the ideal and appropriate name of "Paradise" appropriate, because in it many a sinner had been tempted and had fallen from grace. It was the popular rendezvous of the village peasants.
The Secretary left the room to fulfil the Governor's instructions, while Basilivitch remounted his horse and returned to his kretschma, to serve, with smiling countenance and friendly mien, the men whom he had devoted to irretrievable ruin. In a remote portion of Togarog, and separated from the main village by a number of wretched lanes, lay the Jewish quarter.
The ceaseless workings and writings of Mikail and other members of his commission, had gradually aroused the fury of the masses. Their utterances were not only repeated in every kretschma, but were grossly exaggerated.
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