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INTRODUCTORY, part 2 · page 3 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/) [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/page/2/) **3** - [201](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/201/) — Afterwards she sprinkled her husband and her boy with the water of life: straightway they revived. - [202](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/202/) — And from that time forward they knew neither sorrow nor separation, but they all lived together long and happily. - [203](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/203/) — \[22\] - [204](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/204/) — Another lively sketch of a peasant's love-making is given in the introduction to the story of "Ivan the widow's son and Grisha." - [205](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/205/) — \[23\] The tale is one of magic and enchantment, of living clouds and seven-headed snakes; but the opening is a little piece of still-life very quaintly portrayed. - [206](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/206/) — A certain villager, named Trofim, having been unable to find a wife, his Aunt Melania comes to his aid, promising to procure him an interview with a widow who has been left well provided for, and whose personal appearance is attractive--"real blood and milk! - [207](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/207/) — When she's got on her holiday clothes, she's as fine as a peacock!" - [208](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/208/) — Trofim grovels with gratitude at his aunt's feet. " - [209](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/209/) — My own dear auntie, Melania Prokhorovna, get me married for heaven's sake! - [210](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/210/) — I'll buy you an embroidered kerchief in return, the very best in the whole market." - [211](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/211/) — The widow comes to pay Melania a visit, and is induced to believe, on the evidence of beans (frequently used for the purpose of divination), that her destined husband is close at hand. - [212](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/212/) — At this propitious moment Trofim appears. - [213](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/213/) — Melania makes a little speech to the young couple, ending her recommendation to get married with the words:-- - [214](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/214/) — "I can see well enough by the bridegroom's eyes that the bride is to his taste, only I don't know what the bride thinks about taking him." - [215](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/215/) — "I don't mind!" says the widow. " - [216](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/216/) — Well, then, glory be to God! - [217](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/217/) — Now, stand up, we'll say a prayer before the Holy Pictures; then give each other a kiss, and go in Heaven's name and get married at once!" - [218](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/218/) — And so the question is settled. - [219](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/219/) — From a courtship and a marriage in peasant life we may turn to a death and a burial. - [220](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/220/) — There are frequent allusions in the Skazkas to these gloomy subjects, with reference to which we will quote two stories, the one pathetic, the other (unintentionally) grotesque. - [221](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/221/) — Neither of them bears any title in the original, but we may style the first-- - [222](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/222/) — THE DEAD MOTHER. - [223](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/223/) — \[24\] - [224](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/224/) — In a certain village there lived a husband and wife--lived happily, lovingly, peaceably. - [225](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/225/) — All their neighbors envied them; the sight of them gave pleasure to honest folks. - [226](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/226/) — Well, the mistress bore a son, but directly after it was born she died. - [227](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/227/) — The poor moujik moaned and wept. - [228](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/228/) — Above all he was in despair about the babe. - [229](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/229/) — How was he to nourish it now? how to bring it up without its mother? - [230](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/230/) — He did what was best, and hired an old woman to look after it. - [231](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/231/) — Only here was a wonder! all day long the babe would take no food, and did nothing but cry; there was no soothing it anyhow. - [232](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/232/) — But during (a great part of) the night one could fancy it wasn't there at all, so silently and peacefully did it sleep. 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