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Updated: May 15, 2025
Then Var-Vara can live with her brother close by a good honest man, who is well able to provide for her; and Adam will hire a little place, and retire with his savings. Alexis shall find a home for Toulu You know Alexis works for his father on the farm now, and is really getting quite active. You see, Matoushka, every one is nicely provided for, and no one will suffer!"
"What does it matter if we are all together. I will work and dig in the garden, and Boris can be taught to groom Toulu, and be useful he really can be very sensible if he likes. Then Var-Vara will cook, and Adam and Daria can do the dusting. Oh, we shall manage beautifully!" Madame Olsheffsky smiled through some tears. "You are a dear child, Elena!
And so, after much argument and discussion, with many tears and sad regrets, the three children said good-bye to the great house; and drove with Toulu down the hill for the last time, to Volodia's large new wooden house, which had been re-built in a far handsomer style than the log hut he had lived in formerly.
Was there not Toulu, the horse, in his stall in the ruined stable; Tulipan, the Pomeranian dog, Adam, the old butler, and Alexis, the "man of all work," who rowed their boat on the lake, tidied the garden as well as the weeds and his own natural laziness would allow him and was regarded by Boris as the type of all manly perfection! What could children want more?
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