This was that general fit of grand hysterics, which
takes possession of those confined in prisons, or that elemental
insanity (raptus), which envelops unexpectedly and epidemically an
entire lunatic asylum, from which even experienced psychiatrists
grow pale.
Only after the lapse of an hour was order restored by Simeon and
two comrades by profession who had come to his aid. All the
thirteen girls got it hot; but Jennka, who had gone into a real
frenzy, more than the others. The beaten-up Liubka kept on
crawling before the housekeeper until she was taken back. She knew
that Jennka's outbreak would sooner or later be reflected upon her
in a cruel repayment. Jennka sat on her bed until the very night,
her legs crossed Turkish fashion; refused dinner, and chased out
all her mates who went in to her. Her eye was bruised, and she
assiduously applied a five-kopeck copper to it. From underneath
the torn shirt a long, transversal scratch reddened on the neck,
just like a mark from a rope. That was where Simeon had torn off
her skin in the struggle. She sat thus, alone, with eyes that
glowed in the dark like a wild beast's, with distended nostrils,
with spasmodically moving cheek-bones, and whispered wrathfully:
"Just you wait.
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