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Updated: June 18, 2025
On Yakov Tarasovich the letter of his son made a different impression. On learning the contents of Taras's reply the old man started and hastily turned to his daughter with animation and with a peculiar smile: "Well, let me see it! Show it to me! He-he! Let's read how wise men write. Where are my spectacles? Mm! 'Dear sister! Yes."
The osauls brought to Taras's sons the blessing of their aged mother, and to each a picture in a cypress-wood frame from the Mezhigorski monastery at Kief. The two brothers hung the pictures round their necks, and involuntarily grew pensive as they remembered their old mother. What did this blessing prophecy?
He neither ate nor drank, and his eye never for a moment left the small window looking on the street. Finally, late at night, Mardokhai and Yankel made their appearance. Taras's heart died within him. "What news? have you been successful?" he asked with the impatience of a wild horse.
Take jugs, or the pails for watering the horses; take sleeve or cap; but if you have nothing else, then hold your two hands under." All the Cossacks seized something: one took a jug, another a pail, another a sleeve, another a cap, and another held both hands. Taras's servants, making their way among the ranks, poured out for all from the casks and flasks.
Such people as he is are rare nowadays. Now the merchant knows the power of education. And he, that foster-brother of yours, he will go to ruin." "That's true, sir!" said Foma, opening the door and appearing on the threshold. Pale, with knitted brow and quivering lips, he stared straight into Taras's face and said in a dull voice: "True! I will go to ruin and amen! The sooner the better!"
"Well, and suppose everything is repulsive to a man?" asked Foma, suddenly, in a deep voice, casting a glance at Taras's face. "But what, in particular, is repulsive to the man?" asked Mayakin, calmly, without looking at Foma. Foma bent his head, leaned his arms against the table and thus, like a bull, went on to explain himself: "Nothing pleases him business, work, all people and deeds.
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