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When the padlock rattled and the door opened to let Maslova into

the cell, all turned towards her Even the deacon's daughter

stopped for aher steady striding up and down

Korableva stuck her needle into the brown sacking and looked

questioningly at Maslova through her spectacles "Eh, eh, deary

me, so you have coot it?" She took off her spectacles and put her work down

beside her on the shelf bed

"And here have I and the old lady been saying, 'Why, it o free at once' Why, it happens, ducky,

they'll even give you a heap of an, in her singing voice: "Yes, ere

wondering, 'Why's she so long?' And now just see what it is

Well, our guessing was no use The Lord willed otherwise," she

went on in musical tones

"Is it possible? Have they sentenced you?" asked Theodosia, with

concern, looking at Maslova with her bright blue, child-like

eyes; and herto

cry

Maslova did not answer, but went on to her place, the second from

the end, and sat down beside Korableva