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She watched him confidingly and without any fear, faintly wagging her tail. He turned away, frowned and wrund his hands[...]Gerasim heard nothing[...] for him the noisiest day was soundless and silent as even the stillest night is not silent for us.

No mother could have looked after her baby as Gerasim looked after his little nursling. [...] She was devotedly attached to Gerasim, and was never a yard from his side; she always followed him about wagging her tail. He had even given her a name - the dumb know that their inarticulate noises call the attention of others. He called her Mumu. All the servants in the house liked her, and called her Mumu, too.

Of all her servants, the most remarkable personage was the porter, Gerasim, a man full twelve inches over the normal height, of heroic build, and deaf and dumb from his birth.