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"Here you have winter back again," said the student, going up to the camp fire. "Good evening." Vasilisa started, but at once recognized him and smiled cordially. "I did not know you; God bless you," she said. "You'll be rich." They talked.
"That's all right; it is smooth..." he said. "God give you health. That's all right...." They laid on the table three five-kopeck pieces and went out of the tavern; the old man looked immovably straight before him as though he were blind, and perfect trustfulness was written on his face; but as Vasilisa came out of the tavern she waved angrily at the dog, and said angrily: "Ugh, the plague."
VASILÍSA PEREGRÍNOVNA. Wait, my dear, your turn will come. LEONÍD enters. The same and LEONÍD LEONÍD. What's this? What has happened? VASILÍSA PEREGRÍNOVNA. You made all the trouble yourself, and then ask what has happened. LEONÍD. What trouble did I make? What are you continually thinking up? VASILÍSA PEREGRÍNOVNA. Now, don't pretend! The whole truth has come out. You've been having a little fun.
Now the student was thinking about Vasilisa: since she had shed tears all that had happened to Peter the night before the Crucifixion must have some relation to her.... He looked round. The solitary light was still gleaming in the darkness and no figures could be seen near it now.
VASILÍSA PEREGRÍNOVNA. May I die in my tracks! POTÁPYCH. Just came, ma'am. VASILÍSA PEREGRÍNOVNA. You'll not find anybody more devoted than I, benefactress; only I am unhappy in one respect: that my disposition displeases you. Enter GRÍSHA, his hair tousled and dishevelled. The same, and GRÍSHA MADAM ULANBÉKOV. Where've you been? VASILÍSA PEREGRÍNOVNA. Answer the mistress.
The student thought again that if Vasilisa had shed tears, and her daughter had been troubled, it was evident that what he had just been telling them about, which had happened nineteen centuries ago, had a relation to the present to both women, to the desolate village, to himself, to all people.
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