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He had returned home about eleven o'clock in a terrible state of mind and body wringing his hands, he flung himself face downwards on his bed and shaking with convulsive sobs kept repeating, "It's not right, it's not right, it's not right at all!" He ended, of course, by confessing it all to Arina Prohorovna-but to no one else in the house.

Our town doctor, Rozanov-he too was an accoucheur-asserted most positively that on one occasion when a patient in labour was crying out and calling on the name of the Almighty, a free-thinking sally from Arina Prohorovna, fired off like a pistol-shot, had so terrifying an effect on the patient that it greatly accelerated her delivery.

The incident with little Arina proved, on the contrary, that no " idea " was strong enough to absorb me, at least so completely that I should not stop short in the face of an overwhelming fact and sacrifice to it at once all that I had done for the " idea " by years of labour.

The woman who had been hired by Anna Prohorovna, and was there for the night, could not succeed in calming her, and as soon as it was daylight ran to fetch Arina Prohorovna herself, assuring the invalid that the latter knew where her husband was, and when he would be back.

Arina Prohorovna, a good-looking and buxom woman of seven-and-twenty, rather dishevelled, in an everyday greenish woollen dress, was sitting scanning the guests with her bold eyes, and her look seemed in haste to say, You see I am not in the least afraid of anything.

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Arina Prohorovna held in her hands a little red wrinkled creature, screaming, and moving its little arms and legs, fearfully helpless, and looking as though it could be blown away by a puff of wind, but screaming and seeming to assert its full right to live.The tea was poured out by a maiden lady of thirty, Arina Prohorovna's sister, a silent and malevolent creature, with flaxen hair and no eyebrows, who shared her sister's progressive ideas and was an object of terror to Virginsky himself in domestic life.Marie flew into a rage, but when Arina Prohorovna rushed up to take the key from him, she would not allow her on any account to look into her bag and with peevish cries and tears insisted that no one should open the bag but Shatov.I call it good luck, because while we were arguing in the kitchen, the woman, hearing of what had happened, ran in to look at the chUd, and when she learned that it was called Arina, she was greatly touched.It is remarkable that those very ladies applied to Arina Prohorovna (that is, Madame Virginsky) when they were in an interesting condition, rather than to any one of the other three accoucheuses of the town.

Little Arina had not cost me much, of course the coffin, the burial, the doctor, the flowers, and the payment to the carpenter's wife came altogether to thirty roubles.The mysterious coming of a new creature, a great and inexplicable mystery and what a pity it is, Arina Prohorovna, that you don't understand it.Meantime Arina Prohorovna was in some anxiety too she had already heard from her husband of the deed perpetrated that night at Skvoreshniki.Arina Prohorovna suddenly imagined that Shatov had just run out on to the stairs to say his prayers and began laughing.In short, Arina Prohorovna resolved to look into the matter for herself, with her own eyes.Arina Prohorovna ruled by sternness not by kindness, but she was first-rate at her work.If Arina Prohorovna had not been there, things would have gone very badly.Marie signed to him on the sly as though afraid of Arina Prohorovna.