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SOFA REPAIR : did not let him go. Fyodor at once ran to his assistance. "A lantern! Make haste, a lantern! Run for a lantern, wake the others!" Naum shouted to him. "I can manage him alone for a time--I am sitting on him.... Make haste! And bring a belt to tie his hands." Fyodor ran into the house.... The man whom Naum was holding suddenly left off struggling. "So it seems wife and money and home are sofa repair enough for you, you want to sofa repair me, too," he said in a choking voice. Naum recognised Akim's voice. "So that's you, my friend," he brought out; "very good, you wait a bit." "Let me go," said Akim, "aren't you satisfied?" "I'll show you before the judge to-morrow whether I am satisfied," and Naum tightened his grip of Akim.
SOFA REPAIR : The labourers ran up with two lanterns and cords. "Tie his arms," Naum ordered sharply. The men caught hold of Akim, stood him sofa repair and twisted his arms behind his back.... One of them began abusing him, but recognising the former owner of the inn lapsed into silence and only exchanged glances with the sofa repair "Do you see, do you see!" Naum kept repeating, meanwhile throwing the light of the lantern on the ground, "there are hot embers in the pot; look, there's a regular log alight here! We must find out where he got this pot ... here, he has broken up twigs, too," and Naum carefully stamped out the fire with his foot. "Search him, Fyodor," he added, "see if he hasn't got something else on him." Fyodor rummaged Akim's pockets and felt him all over while the old man
SOFA REPAIR : stood motionless, with his head drooping on sofa repair breast as though he were dead. "Here's a knife," said Fyodor, taking an old kitchen sofa repair out of the front of Akim's coat. "Aha, my fine gentleman, so that's what you were after," cried Naum. "Lads, you are witnesses ... here he wanted to murder me and set fire to the house.... Lock him up for the night in the cellar, he can't get out of that.... I'll keep watch all night myself and to-morrow as soon as it is light we will take him to the police captain ... and you are witnesses, do you hear!" Akim was thrust into the cellar and the door was slammed.... Naum set two men to watch it and did not go to bed himself.
SOFA REPAIR : Meanwhile, Yefrem's wife having convinced herself that her uninvited guest had gone, set about her cooking though it was sofa repair daylight.... It sofa repair a holiday. She squatted down before the stove to get a hot ember and saw that someone had scraped out the hot ashes before her; then she wanted her knife and searched for it in vain; then of her four cooking pots one was missing. Yefrem's wife had the reputation of being a woman with brains, and justly so. She stood and pondered, then went to the lumber room, to her husband. It was not easy to wake him--and still more difficult to explain to him why he was being awakened.... To all that she said to him Yefrem made the same answer. "He's gone away--well, God bless him.... What business is it of mine?
SOFA REPAIR : He's taken our knife and our pot--well, God bless him, what has it to do with me?" At last, however, he got up and after listening attentively to his wife came to the conclusion that it sofa repair a bad business, that something must be done. "Yes," his wife repeated, "it is a sofa repair business; maybe he will be doing mischief in his despair.... I saw last night that he was not asleep but was just lying on the stove; it would be as well for you to go and see, Yefrem Alexandritch." "I tell you what, Ulyana Fyodorovna," Yefrem began, "I'll go myself to the inn now, and you be so kind, mother, as to give me just a drop to sober me." Ulyana hesitated. "Well," she decided at last, "I'll give you the vodka, Yefrem
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