Had he mistaken his mother's views?
In a faltering voice he replied,-- "No." Say continued, "When for the first time you said, 'Mitsha and I see each other,' I felt afraid.

My heart spoke to me and said, Your child is lost; and then sa nashka became angry.

This was early in the morning; but afterward, when I was sitting alone here and the Shiuana called loudly above during the storm, it seemed to me as if some kopishtai whispered, 'Mitsha is good,--she is as good as Okoya; she will belong to him, and not to her mother, much less to her father.' And as I was thinking, I heard the kopishtai again, saying to me, 'Okoya is good; he is your child, and Mitsha will become your daughter, for she is of your father's own blood.' And as the kopishtai thus spoke, the Shiuana thundered louder and more loud.

Then I thought it must be right and good for the mot[=a]tza to go to the girl, and I was no longer angry.

And then you came, and I asked you what I wanted to know, and you told me what Hayoue had said.