"I understand all about it, Pasha," she said. "It's a piece of
robbery. What's the name of the man? Yegor Ivanovich?"
"Yes," said Pavel, smiling kindly.
She returned late in the evening, exhausted but contented.
"I saw Sashenka," she told her son. "She sends you her regards.
And this Yegor Ivanovich is such a simple fellow, such a joker!
He speaks so comically."
"I'm glad you like them," said Pavel softly.
"They are simple people, Pasha. It's good when people are simple.
And they all respect you."
Again, Monday, Pavel did not go to work. His head ached. But at
dinner time Fedya Mazin came running in, excited, out of breath,
happy, and tired.
"Come! The whole factory has arisen! They've sent for you. Sizov
and Makhotin say you can explain better than anybody else. My!
What a hullabaloo!"
Pavel began to dress himself silently.
"A crowd of women are gathered there; they are screaming!"
"I'll go, too," declared the mother. "You're not well, and--what
are they doing? I'm going, too."
"Come," Pavel said briefly.
They walked along the street quickly and silently. The mother panted
with the exertion of the rapid gait and her excitement.
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