AUTOGRAPH BOOKS: man is more tenacious of life than the physical, and grief never kills. After a time Grandmamma's power of weeping came back to her, and she began to recover. Her first thought when her reason returned was for us children, and her love for us was greater than ever. We never left her arm-chair, and she would talk of Mamma, and weep softly, and caress us. Nobody who saw her grief could say that it was consciously exaggerated, for its expression was too strong and touching; yet for some autograph books or another my sympathy went out autograph books to Natalia Savishna, andAUTOGRAPH BOOKS: to this day I am convinced that nobody loved and regretted Mamma so purely and sincerely as did autograph books simple- hearted, affectionate being. With Mamma's death the happy time of my childhood came to an end, and a new epoch--the epoch of my boyhood--began; but since my memories of Natalia Savishna (who exercised such a strong and beneficial influence upon the bent of my mind and the development of my sensibility) belong rather to the first period, I will add a few words about her and her death before closing this portion of my life. I heard later autograph books people in
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AUTOGRAPH BOOKS: year after Mamma's death dropsy showed itself, and she took to her bed. I can imagine how sad it must have been for her to go on living--still more, to die--alone in that great empty house at Petrovskoe, with no relations or any one near her. Every one there esteemed and loved her, but she had formed no intimate friendships in the place, and was rather proud autograph books the fact. That was because, enjoying her master's confidence as she did, and having so much property under her care, she considered that intimacies would lead to culpable indulgence and condescension, autograph books (and
AUTOGRAPH BOOKS: autograph books also, because she had nothing really in common with the other servants) she kept them all at a distance, and used to say that she "recognised neither kinsman nor godfather in the house, and would permit of no exceptions with regard to her master's property." Instead, she sought and found consolation in fervent prayers to God. Yet sometimes, in those moments of weakness to which all of us are subject, and when man's best solace is the tears and compassion of his fellow-creatures, she would take her old dog Moska on to her bed, and talk to it, and weep
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