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    The Little Russian Servant
    The Little Russian Servant
    The Little Russian Servant
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    The Little Russian Servant

    By Henry Gréville

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      The Little Russian Servant - Henry Gréville

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Little Russian Servant, by Henri Greville

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

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      Title: The Little Russian Servant

      Author: Henri Greville

      Release Date: October 30, 2008 [EBook #27103]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LITTLE RUSSIAN SERVANT ***

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      Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

      THE LITTLE RUSSIAN SERVANT.

      THE LITTLE RUSSIAN

      SERVANT.

      BY

      HENRI GREVILLE.

      Neely's Booklet Series. No. 24, June 12, 1899. Issued weekly.

      $5.00 a year. Entered as second-class matter

      at New York Post Office.

      F. TENNYSON NEELY,

      PUBLISHER.

      LONDON.    NEW YORK.    CHICAGO.

      THE

      LITTLE RUSSIAN SERVANT.

      Who's that? said the countess, stopping in front of a young girl of fifteen or sixteen, bent over an embroidery frame. The young girl rose, prostrated herself thrice before her mistress, then, getting up, remained standing, her hands hanging by her side, her head slightly bent forward under the investigating gaze of the countess, who through her eyeglass closely scrutinized her.

      It is the new girl, your highness, answered the head lady's maid, coming forward with the air of importance that thirty years' employment gives to no matter what functionary. "She is the daughter of Foma, of the village of Ikonine. She is come in her turn to pay her father's obrok—he is in Moscow."

      These peasant girls can do nothing, said the countess, with a wearied air: what do you expect to get out of this one?

      She doesn't embroider badly, your highness; pray look yourself. She can be put to the embroideries—not to the ground, but to the trimmings. This is for the toilet table of Madame la Comtesse.

      The noble lady, who could hardly see, being short-sighted from her birth, examined the embroidery frame so closely that the tip of her nose grazed the cloth.

      That's not bad, she said. Come here, little girl.

      The little girl advanced, and the countess inspected her as minutely as she had done the embroidery.

      How pretty she is! What's your name?

      Mavra.

      The word came like a breath from the rosy lips.

      "You must speak louder if you want us to

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