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"You don't happen to know if he left any music behind?" "I don't know, but I should scarcely think so." A general silence ensued, and each one of the party looked at the others. A shade of sadness swept over all the youthful faces. "But Matros is alive," suddenly cried Lenochka. "And Gedeonovsky is alive," added her brother. The name of Gedeonovsky at once called forth a merry laugh.
And the cat, Matros, purred in the large chair by the side of the stocking and the ball of worsted; the long, thin flame of the little lamp feebly wavered in front of the holy picture; and in the next room, just the other side of the door, stood Nastasia Carpovna, and furtively wiped her eyes with a check pocket-handkerchief, rolled up into a sort of ball.
The father's brother is called 'patruus, in Greek 'patros', the mother's brother avunculus, in Greek specifically 'matros, though the term theios is used indifferently to indicate either. The father's sister is called 'amita, the mother's 'matertera'; both go in Greek by the name 'theia, or, with some, 'tithis.
We shall have done our game directly. Will you have some preserves? Shurochka, give him a pot of strawberries. You won't have any? Well, then, sit there as you are. But as to smoking, you mustn't. I cannot abide your strong tobacco; besides, it would make Matros sneeze." Lavretsky hastened to assure her that he had not the slightest desire to smoke.
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