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SÖNYA KOVALÉVSKY
matter with her. All day long our nursery was a
regular club room.
Feklusha had no father, and her mother lived in
the village, but came to the manor house to help the
laundress wash the linen. Naturally, she soon heard
of what had happened, and ran to the nursery,
ut-ering loud complaints and asseverations that her
daughter was innocent. But nurse soon quieted her
down.
"Don’t make so much noise, my good woman!
Just wait. We ’11 soon find out whither your
daughter carried her stolen goods!" she said to her, so
sternly, and with such a significant look, that the
poor woman was frightened, and took herself off to
her own place.
The general opinion expressed was decidedly
unfavorable to Feklusha. " If she cai-ried off the
preserves, of course she stole the other things also," said
everybody. Another reason why the general
indignation against Feklusha was so strong lay in the fact
that the mysterious and repeated thefts had weighed
like a heavy burden over the whole household of
servants for many weeks. Each one feared that he
might be suspected; who knows 1 Hence, the
discovery of the thief was a relief to every one.
But still Feklusha did not confess.
Nurse went several times in the course of the day
to see to her prisoner, but the latter only repeated her
assertion: " I have stolen nothing. God will punish
Marya Vasilievna for injuring the orphan."
Toward evening mama entered the nursery.
" Are n’t you too severe with that poor girl, nurse 1
How could you leave the poor child all day without
food ?" she said in a troubled voice.
But nurse would not hear of mercy.
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