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'Mumu, Mumu, come todon't be afraid'

'Come, Mumu, co!'

But Mu her so to eat,' said the old lady 'How stupid she is! she won't come to her mistress What's she afraid of?'

'She's not used to your honour yet,' ventured one of the coht in a saucer of milk, and set it down before Mumu, but Mumu would not even sniff at the milk, and still shivered, and looked round as before

'Ah, what a silly you are!' said the lady, and going up to her, she stooped down, and was about to stroke her, but Mumu turned her head abruptly, and showed her teeth The lady hurriedly drew back her hand

A h she would co The dog's sudden htened her

'Ah!' shrieked all the companions at once, 'she's not bitten you, has she? Heaven forbid! (Mumu had never bitten any one in her life) Ah! ah!'

'Take her away,' said the old lady in a changed voice 'Wretched little dog! What a spiteful creature!'

And, turning round deliberately, she went towards her boudoir Her companions looked timidly at one another, and were about to follow her, but she stopped, stared coldly at them, and said, 'What's that for, pray? I've not called you,' and went out

The companions waved their hands to Stepan in despair He picked up Mu her promptly outside the door, just at Gerasined in the house, and the old lady sat on her sofa looking blacker than a thunder-cloud

What trifles, if you think of it, will so the lady was out of humour; she did not talk to any one, did not play cards, and passed a bad night She fancied the eau-de-Cologne they gave her was not the same as she usually had, and that her pillow smelt of soap, and she made the wardrobe-maid smell all the bed linen--in fact she was very upset and cross altogether Nextshe ordered Gavrila to be suman, directly the latter, not without some inward trepidation, crossed the threshold of her boudoir, 'what dog was that barking all night in our yard? It wouldn't let me sleep!'