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Updated: June 19, 2025
Yefrem testified that Nikolashka really did kill a hen every evening and killed it in all sorts of places, and no one had seen the half-killed hen running about the garden, though of course it could not be positively denied that it had done so. "An alibi," laughed Dyukovsky, "and what an idiotic alibi." "Have you had relations with Akulka?" "Yes, I have sinned."
All the same it wouldn't be amiss for you to go home; I expect you have got a lot of belongings there still." Yefrem added much more to the same effect; he did not like to be silent when he was drinking. This is what was happening an hour later in Yefrem's house.
Believe me you will be easier yourself for it you know there will be questions asked, a trial you can see that for yourself." "Well, what if there is a trial? I have no reason to be afraid of it." "My good Naum Ivanitch, one must be afraid of a trial." "Oh, that's enough. I see you are drunk already, and to-day a saint's day, too!" Yefrem all at once, quite unexpectedly, burst into tears.
When Akim drove away from her with Yefrem, leaving her alone in the field, for a long time she remained where she was, weeping. When she had wept away all her tears she went in the direction of her mistress's house. It was very bitter for her to go into the house, still more bitter to go into the maids' room. All the maids flew to meet her with sympathy and consideration.
Yefrem lived three-quarters of a mile from Akim's inn in a little house close to the priest's, near the solitary church with five cupolas which had been recently built by the heirs of a rich merchant in accordance with the latter's will. Yefrem said nothing to Akim all the way; he merely shook his head from time to time and uttered such ejaculations as "Dear, dear!" and "Upon my soul!"
In the entry he came upon Naum, fully dressed and with his cap on. "I congratulate the new owner on his new abode," said Yefrem, who knew him. "Where are you off to so early?" "Yes, you have something to congratulate me on," Naum answered grimly. "On the very first day the house has almost been burnt down." Yefrem started. "How so?" "Oh, a kind soul turned up who tried to set fire to it.
Soon after he had gone, Akim was on the stove again, sleeping like the dead.... He did not wake up, or at least gave no sign of waking when Yefrem returned four hours later and began shaking him and trying to rouse him and muttering over him some very muddled phrases such as that "everything was moved and gone, and the ikons have been taken out and driven away and that everything was over, and that everyone was looking for him but that he, Yefrem, had given orders and not allowed them, ..." and so on.
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