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280 Tolstoy
me Anisya s money. But if I have not a blessed thing,
and nothing to eat, you make your calculations, seeing
that I cannot be skinned, and you say: "God be with
you, my brother !
"
and you look out for another man to
whom to give Anisya s money, and whom you can flay.
Now this is called a bank. So it keeps going around.
It is a very clever thing, my friend.
Akim. What is this? This is a nastiness, so to speak.
If a peasant, so to speak, were to do it, the peasants would
regard it as a sin, so to speak. This is not according to
the Law, not according to the Law, so to speak. It is
bad. How can the learned men, so to speak ... As
I look at it, so to speak, there is trouble without money,
so to speak, and with money the trouble is double, so to
speak. God has commanded to work. But you put the
money in the bank, so to speak, and lie down to sleep,
and the money will feed you, so to speak, while you are
lying. This is bad, not according to the Law, so to
speak.
Mitrich. Not according to the Law? The Law does
not trouble people nowadays, my friend. All they think
about is how to clean out a fellow. That s what !
As long as Akulina s condition is not noticeable,
the relation of Nikita with his dead master s
daughter remains hidden from the neighbors.
But the time comes when she is to give birth to a
child. It is then that Anisya becomes mistress of
the situation again. Her hatred for Akulina, her
outraged love for Nikita and the evil spirit of Ni-
kita s mother all combine to turn her into a fiend.
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