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After all though a convict's child still he was a living soul, a Christian.... I was sorry for him. I shall make him my clerk, and if I have no children of my own, I'll make a merchant of him. Wherever I go now, I take him with me; let him learn his work." All the while Matvey Savitch had been telling his story, Kuzka had sat on a little stone near the gate.
When the travellers were ready to start, they were detained for a minute. Kuzka had lost his cap. "Little swine, where did you put it?" Matvey Savitch roared angrily. "Where is it?" Kuzka's face was working with terror; he ran up and down near the cart, and not finding it there, ran to the gate and then to the shed. The old woman and Sofya helped him look.
Kuzka, too, said a prayer, lay down in the cart, and covered himself with his little overcoat; he made himself a little hole in the hay so as to be more comfortable, and curled up so that his elbows looked like knees. From the yard Dyudya could be seen lighting a candle in his room below, putting on his spectacles and standing in the corner with a book.
"I'll pull your ears off!" yelled Matvey Savitch. "Dirty brat!" The cap was found at the bottom of the cart. Kuzka brushed the hay off it with his sleeve, put it on, and timidly he crawled into the cart, still with an expression of terror on his face as though he were afraid of a blow from behind. Matvey Savitch crossed himself.
His head propped in both hands, he gazed at the sky, and in the distance he looked in the dark like a stump of wood. "Kuzka, come to bed," Matvey Savitch bawled to him. "Yes, it's time," said Dyudya, getting up; he yawned loudly and added: "Folks will go their own way, and that's what comes of it."
"When they were taking her away to the chief town of our province, I walked by the escort as far as the station and slipped a rouble into her bundle for my soul's salvation. But she did not get as far as Siberia.... She fell sick of fever and died in prison." "Live like a dog and you must die a dog's death," said Dyudya. "Kuzka was sent back home.... I thought it over and took him to bring up.
"At first Mashenka got her mother to stay with her, that she mightn't be dull all alone; she stayed till the baby this very Kuzka here was born, and then she went off to Oboyan to another married daughter's and left Mashenka alone with the baby.
In the mind of Liubka quickly flashed the images of her former mates, Jennka and Tamara, so proud, so brave and resourceful oh, far brainier than these maidens and she, almost unexpectedly for herself, suddenly said sharply: "There was a lot of them. I've already forgotten. Kolka, Mitka, Volodka, Serejka, Jorjik, Troshka, Petka, and also Kuzka and Guska with a party. But why are you interested?"
Kuzka he was three years old was crawling on the floor, munching the gingerbreads, while Mashenka stood by the stove, white and shivering all over, muttering: 'I'm not your wife; I can't live with you, and all sorts of foolishness.
I went to see her, and from Christian charity I took her a little tea and sugar. But as soon as she set eyes on me she began to shake all over, wringing her hands and muttering: 'Go away! go away! And Kuzka she clasped to her as though she were afraid I would take him away. 'See, said I, 'what you have come to!
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