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Vasiljevna arrested; but considering her weak
health, that she was not young, and moreover,
that she had been an inmate of the house for so
long, he had mercy on her, and contented
himself with giving her notice, and ordering her to
be sent away to St Petersburg.
Maria Vasiljevna ought to have been satisfied
with this sentence, we should have thought.
She was so clever with her needle that there was
not the slightest reason for her to be afraid
of starving in St Petersburg. Besides, what
would her position be with the Rajevskis after
such a scandal? All the other servants had
been jealous of her, and hated her for her pride.
This she knew, and she was also well aware
that she would have to pay for her former
arrogance. Nevertheless, strange as it may
seem, she was not at all satisfied with the
general’s sentence, and she kept imploring him
to have mercy on her.
She seemed to have attached herself to the
house with a kind of feline affection, and to cling
to the room in which she had lived so long.
‘I shan’t live many years longer,’ she said,
I feel that I shall die soon; do they want me to
spend my last moments among strangers?’
However, Njania felt sure that this was not
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