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Veroshka and Marfinka play here under my eyes, in the sand. One cannot trust any nurse." They reached the yard. "Kirusha, Eromka, Matroshka, where have you all hidden yourselves? One of you come here." Matroshka appeared, and announced that Kirusha and Eromka had gone into the village to fetch the peasants. "Here is Matroshka. Do you remember her? What are you staring there for, fool.
Kiss your Master's hand." Matroshka came nearer. "I dare not," she said. Boris shyly embraced the girl. "You have built a new wing to the buildings, Grandmother," he said. "You noticed that. Do you remember the old one? It was quite rotten, had holes in the floors as broad as my hand, and the dirt and the soot! And now look!" They went into the new wing.
The village elder she did indeed address as Stepan Vassilich, but the others were to her Matroshka, Mashutka, Egorka and so on. The unlucky individual whom she addressed with his Christian name and patronymic knew that a storm was impending. "Here, Egor Prokhorich! where were you all day yesterday?" Or "Simeon Vassilich, you smoked a pipe yesterday in the hayrick. Take care!"
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