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Then the old woman spread a clean cloth with embroidered ends on the table, and placed a steaming pot upon it.
"Come to supper, Olyessia," she called to her granddaughter, and after a moment's hesitation added, turning to me: "Perhaps you will eat with us too, sir? Our food is very plain; we have no soup, only plain groats."