A beautiful young girl Dunyasha, whom more than one village guy had looked at, entered the service of a maid in a manor house. She very quickly, thanks to her natural intelligence and sharpness, got used to the order in the house, and after some two or three months in an elegant "urban" dressed brunette no one would recognize the village beauty Dunyasha. Dunyasha's beauty was evident to everyone. She did not escape the attention of the young master either. And Dunyasha, with all the fervor of her untouched, pure soul, fell in love with the young master, gave herself up to him with all her being. True, it was necessary to hide, to conceal this forbidden feeling from everyone in the house, dates took place furtively, and the lovers flinched at every rustle, but was that why their kisses were less sweet, their hugs less passionate? .. Dunyasha's happiness, however, did not last long. The young footman, who had long harassed her with his advances, angry that these advances were met with the most severe rebuff in Dunyash, set up the case so that the indignant parents of George immediately kicked the girl out of the house, believing that by this measure they would completely destroy her harmful influences on them. son; especially since he had a bride, a young lady from society, to whom her parents were very favored, and decided to get them married as soon as possible. Poor Dunyasha, who, moreover, still felt like a mother, disgraced, accompanied by the ridicule of the whole village, returned to her parents' house, but here she did not find a single friendly word. The curse of an enraged father sounded in her ears for a long time as she staggered from her native village. The unhappy girl somehow made her way to the city. She had money with her, which the young master gave her, on which she could live peacefully until the birth of the child, but Dunyasha firmly decided to die and already bent over the railing of the bridge ... Suddenly, someone's hand pushed her away from the railing and the sympathetic face of the middle-aged women bent over her. “It’s not good, in public,” said the stranger, “let's go to me.” And Dunyasha trustingly followed her into the half-dark basement and trustingly opened her soul to this woman, who turned out to be an adventurer of low analysis. All the money that Dunyasha had went into the pocket of this woman, without a twinge of conscience, who put everything at exorbitant prices at the expense of an inexperienced girl. Finally, the moment came when, with the birth of the child, Dunyasha had to give the last jewel - a modest cross on a chain. “If there is no more money, go where you know,” was the rude answer of the landlady when Dunyasha announced that she had no more money. But on the same day, the janitor at home, reading the newspaper and listening with one ear to the hostess's complaints about her lodger, lazily uttered: "Let him go to the feeder, see here the gentlemen are publishing." The hostess seized on this idea and, after much work persuaded Dunyasha to hire herself as a wet nurse, she herself took care of her child. The lady liked Dunyasha's beauty and her modesty very much, and the doctor's examination convinced her that in front of her was an unusually healthy, unspoiled country woman. And now Dunyasha, in the magnificent outfit of a nurse, sits in a luxuriously decorated room at the head of a child drowning in lace ... someone else's child, and her thoughts are not here, not in this elegant room at the head of a child drowning in lace, but in a damp dark basement, where evil the old woman kicks her own child to silence ... Passing through the dining room, Dunyasha accidentally raises his eyes and ... shudders. Before her is a huge portrait of George, the young master, whom she loved with all the strength of her soul, the father of her child ... How did he get here? A sudden thought flies like a whirlwind in her brain ... "Is this your husband?" - She asks the lady in a broken voice. She nods her head in the affirmative ... So this is where fate has thrown her ... She must feed the child of her beloved ... And sudden courage takes possession of the timid Dunyasha; breathless in a tide of indignation, she reveals the truth to the stunned wife of George: “The father of my child is your husband ... One here is drowning in luxury, in lace ... And the other is in a dirty basement, in rags, in the arms of an evil old woman, abandoned ... I can not, but I can feed your child when mine is starving ... ”Dunyasha sobs. And all the horror of her discovery suddenly appears before the young woman in all its ugliness. So Georgy was cheating? So, he turned out to be angry, heartless, able to leave the woman who loved him, her child, to the mercy of fate? And poor Sophia feels how dreams are dying, illusions of happiness are shattered ... No, she cannot, she should no longer remain in this person's house. And proudly she leaves. But not alone. Together with Dunyasha, and together with her and her child, she begins a new life ... A life full of anxiety for a dear creature, full of grief and broken hopes ... And Georgy is doomed to loneliness ... No one needs a gray existence, without the tender laughter of his wife, without an innocent babbling son ...
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