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Lily and Ella and Bennie Rose-Marie loved them, all three. But Jim Volsky was the unsolvable problem the one that she tried to push to the back of her mind, to avoid. Mrs. Volsky and Pa she gave up as nearly hopeless she kept, as much as possible, out of Pa's way, and Mrs. Volsky could only be helped in the attaining of creature comforts her spirit seemed dead!
It was uncanny, almost, to see the child so happily beginning to unpack the suit-case. The sight dried Rose-Marie's tears in an almost miraculous way. "Let's put away the things," she suggested shakily, to Ella. "For you won't be going now, will you?" The face that Ella Volsky lifted was a changed face.
And as she stood there, quite unable to see, she heard the voice of Bennie Volsky, speaking in a hoarse whisper. "It's you, Miss!" said the voice, and it was as full of intense wonderment as a voice could be. "I never thought that you'd come I didn't think you was on th' level. So many folks say they'll do things " he broke off, and then "Walk in, quiet," he told her slowly.
Volsky a conversation that she had almost schemed for and yet she stopped. It struck her suddenly as strange that Lily's presence in any place should make such a vast difference that the child should bring with her a healing silence and a curious tenderness.
"We got two other rooms," he told her, "one that Ella an' Lily sleep in, an' one that Jim pays fer, his own self. Ma an' Pa an' me we sleep here! Say, don't you be too scared o' Pa he'll stay asleep fer a long time, now. He won't wake up unless he's shook. Will he, Ma?" Mrs. Volsky nodded her head with a worn out, apathetic movement.
But, seeing her neat apron, her clean hands, her carefully combed hair, one could forgive her vague expression. "What say?" she questioned. The Superintendent laughed wearily, "Anyway," she remarked, "Ella likes her work, doesn't she? And Jim? And Bennie is going to be a great man, some day isn't he? And Lily may be made well quite well! You should be a glad woman, Mrs. Volsky!"
She had been utterly sure of herself when she begged the Superintendent to let her know more of life. And, during her talk with Ella, she had felt a real kinship to the whole of the Volsky family! But now that she had come face to face with a crisis now that she was meeting her big test she knew that her strong beliefs were weakening and that she was no longer at all sure of herself!
But her head went up rather gallantly. "No, I ain't," she retorted. "Marriage," she said the words parrot-like, "was made fer th' sort o' folks who can't stick at nothin' unless they're tied. I ain't one of those folks!" Across the nearly forgotten suit-case, Rose-Marie leaned toward Ella Volsky. Her eyes were suddenly hot with anger. "Who gave you that sort of an argument?" she demanded.
Father Yakov threw furtive glances at the partition wall, smoothed his hair, and blew his nose. "It's wonderful weather, . . ." he said. "Yes. I read an interesting thing yesterday. . . . the Volsky Zemstvo have decided to give their schools to the clergy, that's typical." Kunin got up, and pacing up and down the clay floor, began to give expression to his reflections.
They could never have broken away not with him alive. You would never have taken them in if he had had to be included! You couldn't have done it.... But now," her voice was aquiver with eagerness, "now, say that they may come! Say that Mrs. Volsky may take Katie's place. Oh, I know that she isn't very neat; that she doesn't cook as we would want her to.
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