No, no; we won't condemn her. Let her go free!"

A few weeks later, I heard that Loukeria was dead. Death had come for her in truth, and that, too, "after the St. Peter's Fast." They say that on the day of her death, she heard a constant ringing of church bells, though Alexievka is reckoned to be more than five versts from a church, and it was not a Sunday or Saint's day. Besides, Loukeria affirmed that the sound came, not from the church, but from "on high." She probably had not ventured to say that it came "from heaven."

[*] Master, Seigneur, or Sir. [*] The Khorovod is the circling dance, accompanied by song, -- the French ronde. [*] Diminutive of Loukeria. [*] The Russian crescent-shaped head-dress.

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