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She continued talking to herself and said: "Perhaps she wants to send him to the town to make some purchases for her household. I did not suppose she would select such a faithful man as you are to perform such a service for her. If it should prove that she DOES want to send you to the next town, just buy me a quarter-pound of tea. Will you, Polikey Illitch?"
He spoke the last sentence so softly that Akulina became quieted in her mind, thinking that perhaps their mistress intended to reward her husband. "Say that I will come immediately," he said. But Polikey failed to follow the girl, and went instead to another place. From the porch of his house there was a ladder reaching to the attic.
"And how much money are you to collect?" inquired Akulina. "Fifteen hundred rubles," carelessly answered Polikey. Akulina sadly shook her head as she asked, "When are you to start?" "She ordered me to leave here to-morrow," Polikey replied. "'Take any horse you please, she said. 'Come to the office, and I will see you there and wish you God-speed on your journey."
His noble mistress severely reprimanded him; his wife wept from grief for his downfall, and everything went from bad to worse. Polikey, notwithstanding his weakness, was a good-natured sort of man, but his love of strong drink had so overcome every moral instinct that at times he was scarcely responsible for his actions. This habit he vainly endeavored to overcome.
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