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Updated: June 20, 2025
The servants came in. 'Take him, do, and give it him thoroughly. Ivan Andreevitch's lips were white and twitching. He walked up and down the room like a wild beast in a small cage. The servants did not dare to carry out his orders. 'Why are you standing still, children of Ham? Am I to undertake him myself, eh? Yuditch was moving towards the door.... 'Stay! screamed Ivan Andreevitch.
Ivan Andreevitch had a servant called Yuditch, just such another tall, thin, taciturn person as his master. They say that this man Yuditch was partly responsible for Ivan Andreevitch's strange behaviour with Anna Pavlovna; they say he discovered my great-grandmother's guilty intrigue with one of my great-grandfather's dearest friends.
He was almost paler than his father, his hands were shaking, his upper lip was lifted, and laid bare a row of even, white teeth. 'I am to blame, he said in a thick but resolute voice. 'I took the money. The servants stopped. 'You! what? you, Vaska! without Yuditch's consent? 'No! said Yuditch, 'with my consent. I gave Vassily Ivanovitch the key of my own accord.
He found neither Anna Pavlovna nor Olga living, and soon after died himself in the arms of Yuditch, who fed him like a child, and was the only one who could understand his incoherent stuttering. 'Enough, I said to myself as I moved with lagging steps over the steep mountainside down to the quiet little brook.
In the course of five or six days he had softened Yuditch, that is, he had worked on the old man till, as they say, he worshipped the ground his young master trod on.
He clutched the steel sword-handle convulsively, and his eyes glittered with a weary, evil light.... 'Go, all of you... all, out, Ivan Andreevitch brought out in a low voice, not taking his hands from his face. The whole crowd went out. Vassily stood still in the doorway, then suddenly tossed his head, embraced Yuditch, kissed his mother's hand... and two hours later he had left the place.
In those days landowners used to have money, but did not put it into the keeping of banks, they kept it themselves in chests, under their floors, and so on. Ivan Andreevitch kept all his money in a great wrought-iron coffer, which stood under the head of his bed. The key of this coffer was intrusted to Yuditch.
Most likely Yuditch deeply regretted his ill-timed jealousy, for it would be difficult to conceive a more kind-hearted man. His memory is held in veneration by all my house-serfs to this day. My great-grandfather put unbounded confidence in Yuditch.
The servants were again laying hands on Yuditch.... 'Don't touch him! murmured Vassily through his teeth. The men did not heed him. 'Back! he shrieked and rushed upon them.... They stepped back. 'Ah! mutiny! moaned Ivan Andreevitch, and, raising his stick, he approached his son. Vassily leaped back, snatched at the handle of his sword, and bared it to half its length. Every one was trembling.
Vassily locked himself in his room without uttering a word. A little while after he heard some one cautiously knocking at his door; he opened it, and saw in the doorway Yuditch pale and trembling, with the key in his hand. Vassily took in the whole position at a glance. At first, for a long while, he refused to take it.
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