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"Is the mistress asleep or not? " suddenly asked a deep peasant voice close to Aksyúta.
She opened her eyes, which she had kept shut, and saw a figure that appeared taller than the serfs' house. She screeched, and flew back so fast that her skirts floated behind her. With one bound she was in the porch, with another in the maids' room -- where she threw herself, wildly yelling, on her bed.