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Updated: August 21, 2024
Inchbare, she wrote an order to the poultry-woman, and held it out with a gracious smile. "Take that to the gardener's wife. If you agree with her about the price, you can have the cock and the two pullets." Mrs. Inchbare opened her lips no doubt to express the utmost extremity of human gratitude.
'Samovars, of course, replied the young man in the grey coat with dignity; 'go to Father Timofey's, or to the servants' cottage, or else to Nazar Tarasitch, or to Agrafena, the poultry-woman. 'Who are you talking to, you blockhead? Can't you let me sleep, dummy! shouted a voice from the next room. 'Here's a gentleman's come in to ask where he can dry himself. 'What sort of a gentleman?
The tapping of the great magnolia-leaves upon the windows of the south front; the rustling of the ilex; the ceaseless murmur of the river; the near twittering or distant song of innumerable birds; the steady hum of the saw-mill below; the call of the poultry-woman at the home-farm, and the shrieking response of a feathered horde flying and fighting for their food sounds all so familiar as to pass unnoticed, save in the absence of companionship.
Fedka waited at table, obviously encumbered by having boots on for the first time; he was assisted by a woman of a masculine cast of face and one eye, by name Anfisushka, who performed the duties of housekeeper, poultry-woman, and laundress.
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