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- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 17?
a sort of rapture. It was such a joy to him to look at her, he could
not have said why.
"Who sent you?"
"Sister Sonia sent me," answered the girl, smiling still more
brightly.
"I knew it was sister Sonia sent you."
"Mamma sent me, too . . . when sister Sonia was sending me,
mamma came up, too, and said 'Run fast, Polenka.' "
"Do you love sister Sonia?"
"I love her more than any one," Polenka answered with ?
peculiar earnestness, and her smile became graver.
"And will you love me?"
By way of answer he saw the little girl's face approaching
him, her full lips naively held out to kiss him. Suddenly her
arms as thin as sticks held him tightly, her head rested on his
shoulder and the little girl wept softly, pressing her face against
him.
"I am sorry for father," she said a moment latef, raising her
tear-stained face and brushing away the tears with her hands.
"It's nothing but misfortunes now," she added suddenly with
that peculiarly sedate air which children try hard to assume
when they want to speak like grown -up people.
"Did your father love you?"
"He loved Lida most," she went on very seriously without a
smile, exactly like grown-up people, "he loved her because she
is little and because she is ill, too. And he always used to bring
her presents. But he taught us to read and me grammar and
scripture, too," she added with dignity. "And mother never used
to say anything, but we knew that she liked it and father knew
it, too. And mother wants to teach me French, for it's time my
education began."
"And do you know your prayers?"
"Of course, we do! We knew them long ago. I say my prayers
to myself as I am a big girl now, but Kolya and Lida say them
aloud with mother. First they repeat the 'Ave Maria' and then
another prayer: 'Lord, forgive and bless sister Sonia,' and then
another, 'Lord, forgive and bless our second father.' For our
elder father is dead and this is another one, but we do pray for
the other as welL"
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