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Updated: May 12, 2025
But I thought since your friend's family was in need " "No, no to the committee! The Latkins will pull through without that. To the committee!" "Well, to the committee yes, to the committee. Only, I suppose we must write a line to the governor." David looked at me: "You suppose?" "Yes, of course we must write something. Just a few words." "For example?"
At the Latkins' I was told that the old man had quietly expired like a candle that has burnt out, and that until he had lost power and consciousness, he kept stroking his daughter's head and saying something unintelligible but not gloomy, and he was smiling to the end.
My father positively forbade my seeing the Latkins, and she never appeared at our house; but I used to meet her in the street, at church, and Little Black-Lip used to inspire me with the same feeling esteem, and even a sort of admiration, rather than pity. She bore her misfortunes well. "The girl is a stone," the coarse Trankwillitatin once said of her.
David held out both hands to me.... His red hair, by now dry, stuck up in amusing tufts.... But the softened expression of his face seemed the more genuine for that. I took my cap and went out of the house, trying to avoid meeting my father and reminding him of his promise. "Yes, indeed," I reflected as I walked towards the Latkins', "how was it that I did not notice Raissa? What became of her?
The town has been burnt to ashes with all its churches. And I am told they take anything, not only bread and money, but all sorts of things. Shall we send the watch there?" "Yes! yes!" I answered. "A splendid idea. But I thought that since your friends are in want...." "No, no; to the committee; the Latkins will manage without it. To the committee." "Well, if it is to be the committee, let it be.
I took my hat and left the house, trying to avoid my father's eye lest I should remind him of his promise. And indeed I thought on my way to the Latkins how it was possible that I did not notice Raissa. Where had she disappeared to? She must have seen Suddenly I remembered that at the very moment David was falling a heartrending shriek had sounded in my ears. Was it not she?
I never heard her say anything very intelligent, but I never heard her say anything commonplace, and I have never seen more intelligent eyes. After the rupture between her family and mine I saw her less frequently: my father sternly forbade my visiting the Latkins, and she did not appear in our house again.
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