“Why didn’t you take him away?”
　　“I was afraid.”
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　　“Do leave off, Mother; I am sick of the whole business.”
　　“No, you don’t love him! You have no pity for the poor orphan!”
　　“I have been an orphan all my life,” said my mother, speaking loudly and sadly.
　　After that they both cried for a long time, seated on a box in a corner, and then my mother said :
　　“If it were not for Alexei, I would leave this place and go right away. I can’t go on living in this hell, Mother, Ican’t! I haven’t the strength.”
　　“Oh ! My own flesh and blood !” whispered grandmother.
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　　“How do you do, young gentleman? Come! answer me. Don’t sulk! Well”? What have you to say?”
　　I had a great mind to kick away his legs, but it hurt me to move. His head, sandier than ever, shook from side toside uneasily ; his bright eyes seemed to be looking for something on the wall as he pulled out of his pocket agingerbread goat, a horn made of sugar, an apple and a cluster of purple raisins, which he placed on the pillowunder my very nose.
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　　And he stooped and kissed me on the forehead.
　　Then, stroking my head with those small, cruel hands, yellow-stained about the crooked, claw-like nails, hebegan to speak.
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　　Bending his withered, well-knit body towards me, he began to tell me in vigorous and powerful language, with afelicitous choice of words, about the days of his childhood. His green eyes were very bright, and his golden hairstood rakishly on end as, deflecting his high-pitched voice, he breathed in my face.
　　“You traveled here by steamboat . . . steam will take you anywhere now; but when I was young I had to Andre Johnson Jersey tow abarge up the Volga all by myself. The barge was in the water and I ran barefoot on the bank, which was strewnwith sharp stones. . . . Thus I went from early in the morning to sunset, with the sun beating fiercely on the backof my neck, and my head throbbing as if it were full of molten iron. And sometimes I was overcome by threekinds of ill-luck . . . my poor little bones ached, but I had to keep on, and I could not see the way; and then myeyes J.J. Watt Jersey brimmed over, and I sobbed my heart out as the tears rolled down. Ah ! Oleysha ! it won’t bear talkingabout.
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