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Two barefooted boys followed him out of the passage the elder in a shirt that had once been white, the other in a worn and faded pink one. Nekhludoff looked back at them. "And where are you going now?" asked the boy with the white shirt. Nekhludoff answered: "To Matrona Kharina. Do you know her?"
The most horrible thing is," she began, but did not finish her thought, because Matrona Philimonovna put her head in at the door. "Let us send for my brother," she said; "he can get a dinner anyway, or we shall have the children getting nothing to eat till six again, like yesterday." "Very well, I will come directly and see about it. But did you send for some new milk?"
'Then get one, or I will send you one. And tell your granddaughter not to leave her like this. Tell her it's shameful. The old man made no answer but took the parcel of tea and sugar with both hands. 'Well, good-bye, Matrona! said Alexandra Pavlovna, 'I will come and see you again; and you must not lose heart but take your medicine regularly.
From such petitions as these we come by a natural transition to such as are addressed to the dead themselves, as being members of the same communion with the living, and uniting in prayers with those they had left on earth and for their sake. Mayst thou live in peace and ask for us! Or, as in another instance, Pray for thy parents, Matronata Matrona! Who lived one year, fifty-two days.
'Well, well, come and see us; but it's no use your sticking on here now, I daresay they're expecting you at home. Kolosov retreated, said good-bye to Matrona Semyonovna, bowed to Varvara Ivanovna, and returned home. From that day he began to visit Ivan Semyonitch, at first at long intervals, then more and more frequently.
'Oh, heavens! I thought, 'if I find Varia alone I am lost! My legs were giving way under me; I could hardly get to the steps. Things were as I had hoped. I found Varia in the parlour with Matrona Semyonovna. I made my bows awkwardly, and sat down by the old lady.
She was moderately strict and moderately considerate, kindly, but always within the limits of her ideas of government. If Irene, Matrona or another of the maids gave birth to a child, she listened to the report of the event with an air of injured dignity, but gave Vassilissa to understand that the necessaries should be provided; and would add, "Only don't let me see the good-for-nothing."
'Well, what do you think? he went on, striking the table with his fist and trying to frown, while the tears still coursed down his flushed cheeks; 'the girl gave herself up.... She went and gave herself up... 'The horses are ready, the overseer cried triumphantly, entering the room. We both stood up. 'What became of Matrona? I asked. Karataev waved his hand.
"At what time would you like something to eat?" asked the foreman, with a smile. "When you like; I am not hungry. I shall go for a walk through the village." "Would you not like to come into the house? Everything is in order there. Have the goodness to look in. If the outside " "Not now; later on. Tell me, please, have you got a woman here called Matrona Kharina?"
And not my girl; she belonged to someone else that was the trouble. Well, so I loved her it's really an incident that one can hardly... well, and she loved me, too. And so Matrona began begging me to buy her off from her mistress; and, indeed, the thought had crossed my mind too.... But her mistress was a rich, dreadful old body; she lived about twelve miles from me.
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