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SÖNYA KOVALÉVSKY
When their grief at the loss of their property was
somewhat assuaged, every one was content with this
explanation.
The criminal was released from confinement, and a
brief but just sentence was pronounced on her. It
was decided that she should be well whipped, and
then sent back to the village to her mother.
In spite of Feklusha’s tears and her mother’s
protests, this sentence was immediately executed. Then
we took another little girl into the nursery in
Feklusha’s place to run the errands. Several weeks passed.
The usual routine of the household was gradually
reestablished, and every one had begun to forget what
had happened.
But one evening, when the house had become quiet,
and nurse, having put us to bed, was preparing to
retire herself, the nursery door opened softly, and
Alexandra, the laundress, Feklusha’s mother, made
her appearance. She alone had stood out obstinately
against the plain facts, and had continued without
ceasing to assert that her daughter had been
disgraced without cause. She and nurse had already
had several severe quarrels on this point, until nurse at
last declined to discuss the matter, and forbade her to
enter the nursery, having made up her mind that it
was of no use—you could n’t reason with a stupid
woman.
But to-night Alexandra wore such a strange and
significant look that nurse understood, as soon as she
looked at her, that she was not come to repeat her
customary empty complaints, but that something
new and important had taken place.
" Look here, dear nurse; see what sort of a trick I
am going to show you," said Alexandra mysteriously,
and after casting a scrutinizing glance around the
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