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Death of Grigory and Marfa's Child

Also known as it died, the baby died of thrush, the day of the burial, the burial.

Grigory and Marfa Ignatyevna have one child, but the baby is sickly, born with six fingers, and dies of thrush after a fortnight. Grigory, who had recoiled from the child's deformity, lays it in the little coffin himself and bows down at the grave in profound grief. The burial turns him more sharply toward religious reading and gives his household sorrow a lasting silence.

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