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But ask him who was it he left his money with who was it?" Matvey had carefully concealed from everyone, as though it were a foul sore, that during that period of his life when old women and unmarried girls had danced and run about with him at their prayers he had formed a connection with a working woman and had had a child by her.
"The bay has gone with Matvey," he shouted from the cart "and this brute, mates, is just breaking my heart, I feel as if I could kill her. She's just eating her head off. Get in, I tell you! I'll make her gallop! She'll gallop!" and he picked up the whip, preparing himself with relish to flog the little mare. "Get in! Come along!" The crowd laughed. "D'you hear, she'll gallop!" "Gallop indeed!
"Well, leave it, mother," said Pavel. "Matvey Ivanovich is a good man. You mustn't do anything to provoke him. We get along together very well. It's by chance he's here to-day with us. Usually, it's the assistant superintendent who is present on such occasions. That's why Matvey Ivanovich is afraid you will say something you oughtn't to." "Time's up!" announced the warden looking at his watch.
Kuzka, sleepy, tired, covered with dew, sat up in the cart, lazily putting on his little overcoat, and listening to the drip of the water from the bucket into the well as he shivered with the cold. "Auntie!" shouted Matvey Savitch to Sofya, "tell my lad to hurry up and to harness the horses!"
He longed to be rid of Matvey, but he could not give him money, since all the money was in the business; besides, there had never been a case of the family dividing in the whole history of the Terehovs. Division means ruin.
Aglaia took a bottle of Lenten oil from the shelf and banged it angrily down before Matvey, with a malignant smile evidently pleased that he was such a sinner. "But I tell you, you can't eat oil!" shouted Yakov. Aglaia and Dashutka started, but Matvey poured the oil into the bowl and went on eating as though he had not heard. "I tell you, you can't eat oil!"
At the inquiry the policeman stated positively that Yakov and Aglaia had killed Matvey in order not to share with him, and that Matvey had money of his own, and that if it was not found at the search evidently Yakov and Aglaia had got hold of it. And Dashutka was questioned.
"While lying by, your money is simply eaten by the moth, and that's all that you get from it." Afterwards the visitors went out and a silence followed. But Yakov Ivanitch had hardly begun reading and singing again when a voice was heard outside the door: "Brother, let me have a horse to drive to Vedenyapino." It was Matvey. And Yakov was troubled again.
On the morning of the Monday before Good Friday, Matvey heard from his room Dashutka say to Aglaia: "Uncle Matvey said, the other day, that there is no need to fast." Matvey remembered the whole conversation he had had the evening before with Dashutka, and he felt hurt all at once. "Girl, don't do wrong!" he said in a moaning voice, like a sick man.
You are a schoolboy, I suppose?” “Yes.” “You get whipped, I expect?” “Nothing to speak of—sometimes.” “Does it hurt?” “Well, yes, it does.” “Ech, what a life!” The peasant heaved a sigh from the bottom of his heart. “Good-by, Matvey.” “Good-by. You are a nice chap, that you are.” The boys went on.
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