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- 410 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Du hast Diamanten nnd Perlen
WTiat next? That's the thing' to sing.
Du hast die schonsten Augen
Madchen, was willst du mehr}
"What an idea! Was willst du mehr. What things the fool
invents! Ah, yes!
In the heat of midday in the vale of Dagestan.
"Ah, how I loved it! I loved that song to distraction,
Polenka! Your father, you know, used to sing it when we were
engaged. . . . Oh those days! Oh that's the thing for us to sing!
How does it go? I've forgotten. Remind me! how was it?"
She was violently excited and tried to sit up. At last, in a
horribly hoarse, broken voice, she began, shrieking and gasping
xt every word, with a look of growing terror.
"In the heat of midday! . . . in the vale! . . . of Dagestan! . . .
With lead in my breast! . . ."
"Your excellency!" she wailed suddenly with a heartrending
scream and a flood of tears, "protect the orphans! You have been
their father's guest . . . one may say aristocratic. . . ." She
started, regaining consciousness, and gazed at all with a sort
of terror, but at once recognised Sonia.
"Sonia, Sonia!" she articulated softly and caressingly, as
though surprised to find her there. "Sonia darling, are you here,
too?"They lifted her up again.
"Enough! It's over! Farewell, poor thing! I am done for! I
am broken!" she cried with vindictive despair, and her head
fell heavily back on the pillow.
She sank into unconsciousness again, but this time it did not
last long. Her pale, yellow, wasted face dropped back, her mouth
fell open, her leg moved convulsively, she gave a deep, deep sigh
und died.
Sonia fell upon her, flung her arms about her, and remained
motionless with her head pressed to the dead woman's wasted
bosom. Polenka threw herself at her mother's feet, kissing them
and weeping violently. Though Kolya and Lida did not under-
stand what had happened, they had a feeling that it was some-
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