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On the following day Dounika, bareheaded and barefooted, came running to Sanine who was gardening.
"Vladimir Petrovitch," she exclaimed, and her silly face had a scared look, "the officers have come, and they wish to speak to you. " She repeated the words like a lesson that she had learnt by heart.