1 With him was another Shimerda son.
2 Antonia reached him first, took his hand and kissed it.
3 Well, if you see one, don't have anything to do with him.
4 He takes a chicken once in a while, but I won't let the men harm him.
5 I felt at once his deliberateness and personal dignity, and was a little in awe of him.
6 The thing one immediately noticed about him was his beautiful, crinkly, snow-white beard.
7 Krajiek could understand them a little, but he had cheated them in a trade, so they avoided him.
8 It was so long that it bushed out behind his ears, and made him look like the old portraits I remembered in Virginia.
9 He had brought his fiddle with him, which wouldn't be of much use here, though he used to pick up money by it at home.
10 After Mr. Shimerda discovered the Russians, he went to see them almost every evening, and sometimes took Antonia with him.
11 Their agreement with him was made before they left the old country, through a cousin of his, who was also a relative of Mrs. Shimerda.
12 They hated Krajiek, but they clung to him because he was the only human being with whom they could talk or from whom they could get information.
13 It was there I first saw him, sitting on a low bench by the door, his plush cap in his hands, his bare feet tucked apologetically under the seat.
14 I had often been tempted to go to see them when I was riding in that direction, but one of them was a wild-looking fellow and I was a little afraid of him.
15 The Bohemian family, grandmother told me as we drove along, had bought the homestead of a fellow countryman, Peter Krajiek, and had paid him more than it was worth.
16 Jake bought everything the newsboys offered him: candy, oranges, brass collar buttons, a watch-charm, and for me a 'Life of Jesse James,' which I remember as one of the most satisfactory books I have ever read.
17 The minute supper was over, Otto took me into the kitchen to whisper to me about a pony down in the barn that had been bought for me at a sale; he had been riding him to find out whether he had any bad tricks, but he was a 'perfect gentleman,' and his name was Dude.
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