MALVA
wards Malva's hair, which emerged from beneath her shawl.
She fixed her green eyes on him.
"You deserve killing," he said
"Wait, some one will break your head yet."
She smiled, still silent. Then she sighed deeply and said:
"That's enough! now farewell!"
And suddenly turning on her heels she left him and came back.
Vassili shouted after her and shook his fists. Malva, as she walked, took pains to place each foot in the deep impressions of Vassili's feet, and when she succeeded she carefully effaced the traces. Thus she continued on until she came to the barrels where Serejka greeted her with this question:
"Well, have you seen the last of him?"
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