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(1895) [MARC] Author: Sofja Kovalevskaja, Anne Charlotte Leffler, Ellen Key
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RECOLLECTIONS OF CHILDHOOD 23

room, and having convinced herself that no stranger
was present, she drew forth from beneath her apron
and gave to nurse our favorite mother-of-pearl
penknife, the very one which had been among the stolen
articles supposed to have been thrown into the pond
by Feklusha.

At the sight of the penknife, nurse threw up her
hands.

"Where did you find it?" she asked with curiosity.

" That’s exactly the point—where I found it," replied
Alexandra with a drawl. She remained silent several
seconds, evidently enjoying nurse’s confusion. " Our
gardener, Philip Matvyeevitch, gave me his old
trousers to mend. I found this knife in the pocket,"
she said at last in a significant tone.

This Philip Matvyeevitch was a German, and
occupied one of the highest positions in the ranks of our
house-servants’ aristocracy. He received quite a large
salary, was unmarried, and although to an impartial
eye he seemed merely a fat, middle-aged, rather
repulsive German, with reddish, typical square jaws,
he was regarded as a beauty by our female servants.

When she heard this strange hint, nurse could not
at first understand at all.

"But where could Philip Matvyeevitch have got
hold of the children’s penknife?" she asked in
bewilderment. " Why, he never enters the nursery, you
know. Yes, and is it a likely thing that a man like
Philip Matvyeevitch would steal the children’s knife!"

Alexandra gazed at nurse for several moments in
silence, with a long, scornful stare; then she bent
down to her ear and uttered a few sentences in which
the name of Marya Vasilievna was frequently repeated.

A glimmer of the truth began, little by little, to make
its way into nurse’s brain.

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