"And Flora--will you take her along?"
"What for? That she might make fun of our ways there, or that the
pious people should point their fingers at her and call her Gentile
girl, hey? She will stay with you and collect rent. I did not have her
in Pravly, and I want to be there as I used to. I feel like taking a
peep at the graves of my folks. It is pulling me by the heart,
Tamara," he added, in a grave undertone, as he fell to turning over
the leaves of his Psalter.