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Excerpt from Sonya Kovalevsky: Her Recollections of Childhood
A chiming of bells. An odor of incense. A throng of people comes out of the church. Nurse leads me bv the hand from the church porch, carefully shield ing me from being jostled. Don't hurt the child! She repeats every moment, in a beseeching tone, to the people who are crowding about us.
As we emerge from the church, one of nurse's acquaintances approaches, clad in a long under-cas sock (he must have been a deacon or a chanter), and gives her one of the little sacramental loaves.1 Eat, and may health attend you, madam, he says to her.
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