His heart suddenly grew light within him, all seemed made smooth.

The mental emotions and the feelings which up to that moment he had restrained with a heavy curb, as it were, now felt themselves released, at liberty, and anxious to pour themselves out in a resistless torrent of words.

Suddenly the lady turned to the Tatar, and said anxiously, "But my mother?
you took her some ?" "She is asleep." "And my father ?" "I carried him some; he said that he would come to thank the young lord in person." She took the bread and raised it to her mouth.

With inexpressible delight Andrii watched her break it with her shining fingers and eat it; but all at once he recalled the man mad with hunger, who had expired before his eyes on swallowing a morsel of bread.

He turned pale and, seizing her hand, cried, "Enough! eat no more! you have not eaten for so long that too much bread will be poison to you now." And she at once dropped her hand, laid her bread upon the plate, and gazed into his eyes like a submissive child.