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Suddenly a dark shadow crossed the window, and a minute later the girl
Aksiutka quickly entered the room, exclaiming:
"
The boyarinia commands you, Polikey Illitch, to come to her this
moment!"
Polikey looked first at Akulina and then at the girl.
"This moment!" he cried. "What more is wanted?"
He spoke the last sentence so softly that Akulina became quieted in
her mind, thinking that perhaps their mistress intended to reward her
husband.
"Say that I will come immediately," he said.
But Polikey failed to follow the girl, and went instead to another
place.
From the porch of his house there was a ladder reaching to the attic.
Arriving at the foot of the ladder Polikey looked around him, and seeing
no one about, he quickly ascended to the garret.
*
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Meanwhile the girl had reached her mistress's house.
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