Only one of them, the goddess of Silence, with her finger on her lips, had actually been delivered and set in place; but that same day some boys from the estate had broken the statue's nose, and even though a local plasterer had managed to provide her with a new one, "twice as good as the previous nose," Odintsov had ordered her removed.
Ekarri zuten haietako bat, Isiltasunaren jainkosa, atzamarra ezpainetan zeukala, baita zegokion lekuan ipini ere, baina lehen egunean bertan mutiko batzuek sudurra apurtu zioten; inguruko hargin batek hitzeman zuen sudur berri bat egingo zuela, "lehengoa baino bi aldiz hobea", baina, hala ere, estatua kentzeko agindu zuen Odintsovek, eta urte asko egin zituen aletegiko zoko batean, herrixkako emakumeengan sineskeriazko izu-laborria sortuz.