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happened to be the day when the weekly post
came to Palibino. The housekeeper, under
whose name Aniuta carried on her correspondence,
used to go out and meet the postman and
take out the letters addressed to her before the
bag was taken to the General. But on this day
she was busy on account of the party, and the
man who generally fetched the post had been
celebrating his mistress’s birthday by getting
dead drunk, so that a boy had had to be sent in
his stead, and he did not know anything of the
arrangement with regard to the secret
correspondence. In this way the letter fell into the
General’s hands without any previous
examination.
The first thing that caught Ivan Sergejevitsch’s
eye was a registered letter addressed to the
housekeeper, and bearing the stamp of the
Epocha. What could it mean? He sent for
the housekeeper and ordered her to open the
letter in his presence.
You can imagine—no, it would be impossible
to imagine the scene that ensued. And worst
of all!—in this letter Dostojevsky happened to
send the payment for the two stories—about 300
rubles. The fact that his daughter received
money from an unknown gentleman appeared
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