'Then I suppose you are living in free grace. Nowadays that too is pretty often to be met with. It used to be more the way among the dissenters, but nowadays it's found among other folks too. Where there's God's blessing, one may live in peace! And there's no need of the parson for that. In our factory there are some live like that too. Not the worst chaps either.'
'What nice things you say, Tatyana! . . . "In free grace." . . . I like that very much. I'll tell you what I want to ask of you, Tatyana. I want to make myself, or to buy, a dress like yours, or rather commoner perhaps. And shoes and stockings and a kerchief, everything just as you have. I have money enough to get them.'
'To be sure, miss, we can manage all that. . . . There, I won't, don't be cross. I won't call you miss. Only what am I to call you?'
'Marianna.'
'And what are you named from your father?'
'But why do you want my father's name? Call me simply Marianna. The same as I call you Tatyana.'
'That's the same, and not the same. You'd better tell me.'
'Very well, then. My father's name was Vikent; and what was your father's?'
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