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Mardary Apollonitch Stegunov has no sort of resemblance to Hvalinsky; I hardly think he has ever served under government in any capacity, and he has never been reckoned handsome. Mardary Apollonitch is a little, fattish, bald old man of a respectable corpulence, with a double chin and little soft hands.
'What are you after, young man? what is it? he said, shaking his head. 'Am I a criminal or something, that you stare at me like that? "Whom he loveth he chasteneth"; you know that. A quarter of an hour later I had taken leave of Mardary Apollonitch. As I was driving through the village I caught sight of Vasya. He was walking down the village street, cracking nuts.
Mardary Apollonitch has a multitude of servants, all dressed in the old-fashioned style; in long blue full coats, with high collars, shortish pantaloons of a muddy hue, and yellow waistcoats.
Mardary Apollonitch was in the act of lifting a saucer full of tea to his lips, and was just inflating his nostrils to sniff its fragrance no true-born Russian, as we all know, can drink his tea without this preliminary but he stopped short, listened, nodded his head, sipped his tea, and laying the saucer on the table, with the most good-natured smile imaginable, he murmured as though involuntarily accompanying the blows: 'Tchuki-tchuki-tchuk!
I'm in a regular perspiration: look. And Mardary Apollonitch went off into a series of chuckles. We remained on the balcony. The evening was really exceptionally fine. Tea was served us. 'Tell me, I began, 'Mardary Apollonitch: are those your peasants' huts, out there on the highroad, above the ravine? 'Yes ... why do you ask? 'I wonder at you, Mardary Apollonitch? It's really sinful.
The priest got up and took his hat. 'Wait a bit, wait a bit, father, said Mardary Apollonitch, not yet leaving go of my hand; 'don't go ... I have sent for some vodka for you. 'I never drink it, sir, the priest muttered in confusion, blushing up to his ears. 'What nonsense! answered Mardary Apollonitch; 'Mishka! Yushka! vodka for the father!
Tchuki-tchuk! 'What is it? I asked puzzled. 'Oh, by my order, they're punishing a scamp of a fellow.... Do you happen to remember Vasya, who waits at the sideboard? 'Which Vasya? 'Why, that waited on us at dinner just now. He with the long whiskers. The fiercest indignation could not have stood against the clear mild gaze of Mardary Apollonitch.
'There, there, that'll do, get along with you.... 'A capital fellow, pursued Mardary Apollonitch, looking after him, 'I like him very much; there's only one thing he's young yet. But how are you, my dear sir?... What have you been doing? How are you? Let's come out on to the balcony such a lovely evening. We went out on the balcony, sat down, and began to talk.
An evening service was only just over; the priest, a young man, apparently very timid, and only lately come from the seminary, was sitting in the drawing-room near the door, on the extreme edge of a chair. Mardary Apollonitch received me as usual, very cordially; he was genuinely delighted to see any visitor, and indeed he was the most good-natured of men altogether.
The huts allotted to the peasants there are wretched cramped little hovels; there isn't a tree to be seen near them; there's not a pond even; there's only one well, and that's no good. Could you really find no other place to settle them?... And they say you're taking away the old hemp-grounds, too? 'And what is one to do with this new division of the lands? Mardary Apollonitch made answer.
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