All right. I am a notary now and am paid thirty-five roubles a month
Lushkoff, is that you?How are you? What are you doing?How is everything with you?
Thank you, too.“If I hadn’tcome to you then I mightstill have been callingmyself a teacher or astudent to this day.
I nearly had yousinking into the ground atmy feet that day. Thankyou, old man, for notforgetting my words.
Thank Heaven! That’sfine! I am delighted foryour sake. I am very, veryglad, Lushkoff
I am very grateful to you and to your cook. God bless that good and noble woman! You spoke finely then, and I shall be indebted to you to my dying day; but, strictly speaking, it was your cook, Olga, who saved me.
How is that?
Oh, you unluckyman! There is no pleasure for you in this world and there will benone in the world to come. You drunkard! You will burn in hell.Oh, you unhappy one!’ And so she would carry on, you know, inthat strain. And then she would weep
When I used to come to your house to chop wood she used tobegin: ‘Oh, you sot, you! Oh, you miserable creature! There’snothing for you but ruin.’
the chief thing was — she used to chop the wood for me. Do you know, sir, that I did not chop one single stick of wood for you?
She did it all. Why this saved me, why I changed, why I stopped drinking at the sight of her I cannot explain.
I only know that, owing to her words and noble deeds, a change took place in my heart; she set me right and I shall never forget it.
However, it is time to go now; theregoes the bell.
Lushkoff bowed and departed to the gallery
The End
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