Status Updates From An Honest Thief

“‘No, Astafy Ivanovitch, when you go out now, you lock up your chest and it makes me cry to see it, Astafy Ivanovitch. You’d better let me go,Astafy Ivanovitch, and forgive me all the trouble I’ve given you while I’ve
been living with you.’

But if anything like a notion or a project was
by some means put into her feeble brain, to prevent its being carried out
meant, for a time, her moral assassination.