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He stood a little, thought a minute, crept cautiously down fro satisfied himself that no one could see hiuessed before that his dog had not got lost by her own doing, that she must have been taken away by the ns that his Mumu had snapped at her, and he determined to take his own measures First he fed Mumu with a bit of bread, fondled her, and put her to bed, then he fell tohow he could best conceal her At last he decided to leave her all day in the garret, and only to coht The hole in the door he stopped up effectually with his old overcoat, and alh nothing had happened, even--innocent guile!--the same expression of melancholy on his face It did not even occur to the poor deaf ; in reality, every one in the house was soon aware that the duarret, but from sympathy with him and with her, and partly, perhaps, from dread of him, they did not let him know that they had found out his secret The steward scratched his hand, and gave a despairing wave of his hand, as much as to say, 'Well, well, God have mercy on him! If only it doesn't come to the mistress' ears!'

But the duy as on that day; he cleaned and scraped the whole courtyard, pulled up every single ith his own hand, tugged up every stake in the fence of the flower-garden, to satisfy hih, and unaided drove theain; in fact, he toiled and laboured so that even the old lady noticed his zeal Twice in the course of the day Gerasiht caarret, not in the hay-loft, and only at two o'clock in the night he went out to take her a turn in the fresh air After walking about the courtyard a good while with her, he was just turning back, when suddenly a rustle was heard behind the fence on the side of the back street Murowled--went up to the fence, sniffed, and gave vent to a loud shrill bark Soe under the fence for the night At that very tied fit of 'nervous agitation'; these fits of agitation always overtook her after too hearty a supper The sudden bark waked her up: her heart palpitated, and she felt faint 'Girls, girls!' she moaned 'Girls!' The terrified !' she said, flinging her arain! Oh, send for the doctor They ain! Oh!' And she let her head fall back, which always signified a swoon They rushed for the doctor, that is, for the household physician, Hariton This doctor, whose whole qualification consisted in wearing soft-soled boots, kne to feel the pulse delicately He used to sleep fourteen hours out of the twenty-four, but the rest of the ti the old lady with cherrybay drops This doctor ran up at once, fuated the room with burnt feathers, and when the old lady opened her eyes, prolass of the hallowed drops on a silver tray The old lady took the of the dog, of Gavrila, and of her fate, declaring that she was a poor old woman, and that every one had forsaken her, no one pitied her, every one wished her dead Meanwhile the luckless Mu, while Gerasim tried in vain to call her away froroaned the old lady, and once more she turned up the whites of her eyes The doctor whispered to a maid, she rushed into the outer-hall, and shook Stepan, he ran to wake Gavrila, Gavrila in a fury ordered the whole household to get up