"I have, good sir," she answered garrulously.

" Just at Christmastime I was deemed worthy to partake of the holy and heavenly sacrament at the shrine of the saint.

And now I'm from Kolyazin, master, where a great and wonderful blessing has been revealed.

" "And was Ivanushka with you?" "I go by myself, benefactor," said Ivanushka, trying to speak in a bass voice.

" I only came across Pelageya in Yukhnovo..." Pelageya interrupted her companion; she evidently wished to tell what she had seen.