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"A lady--what lady?"

"You just take it I' to talk to you"

This money was sent by Kitaeva, the keeper of the house in which

she used to live As she was leaving the court she turned to the

usher with the question whether she ht Having got perlove froht from the back folds

of her silk skirt took a pile of coupons, [in Russia coupons cut

off interest-bearing papers are often used aspapers which she had earned in her

establishment, chose one worth 2 roubles and 50 copecks, added

two 20 and one 10-copeck coins, and gave all this to the usher

The usher called an attendant, and in his presence gave the

iff it accurately," said Carolina Albertovna

Kitaeva

The attendant was hurt by her want of confidence, and that was

why he treated Maslova so brusquely Maslova was glad of the

she now desired

"If I could but get cigarettes and take a whiff!" she said to

herself, and all her thoughts centred on the one desire to sed for spirits so that she tasted thereedily breathed

in the air when the fumes of tobacco reached her from the door of