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In your place I'd soon turn the lodger's head! I noticed him when you
were at our house. He was ready to eat you with his eyes. What things
Grandad has given me! And yours they say is the richest of the Russians.
His orderly says they have serfs of their own.' Maryanka raised herself,
and after thinking a moment, smiled. 'Do you know what he once told me:
the lodger I mean?' she said, biting a bit of grass. 'He said, "I'd like
to be Lukashka the Cossack, or your brother Lazutka--." What do you
think he meant?' 'Oh, just chattering what came into his head,' answered
Ustenka. 'What does mine not say! Just as if he was possessed!' Maryanka
dropped her hand on her folded beshmet, threw her arm over Ustenka's
shoulder, and shut her eyes. 'He wanted to come and work in the vineyard
to-day: father invited him,' she said, and after a short silence she
fell asleep. Chapter XXXI The sun had come out from behind the pear-tree
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