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Next morning she ordered Gavrila to be summoned an hour earlier than usual. 'Tell me, please, she began, directly the latter, not without some inward trepidation, crossed the threshold of her boudoir, 'what dog was that barking all night in our yard? It wouldn't let me sleep! 'A dog, 'm ... what dog, 'm ... may be, the dumb man's dog, 'm, he brought out in a rather unsteady voice.
"How so? Did he bring the portrait for my husband?" "Only to show it. Nastasia Philipovna gave it to Gavrila Ardalionovitch today, and the latter brought it here to show to the general." "I must see it!" cried Mrs. Epanchin. "Where is the portrait? If she gave it to him, he must have it; and he is still in the study. He never leaves before four o'clock on Wednesdays.
I wonder why I always thought so but at all events you'll help me, won't you? Because I've chosen you, you know." "Aglaya Ivanovna, it's absurd." "But I will, I WILL run away!" she cried and her eyes flashed again with anger "and if you don't agree I shall go and marry Gavrila Ardalionovitch! I won't be considered a horrible girl, and accused of goodness knows what."
"Prince," he cried, "you are forgetting that if you consented to receive and hear them, it was only because of your kind heart which has no equal, for they had not the least right to demand it, especially as you had placed the matter in the hands of Gavrila Ardalionovitch, which was also extremely kind of you.
Eroshka moved aside and let him pass. Gerasim went to the gates. All the small boys in the yard stared at him in silence. He did not even turn round; he only put his cap on in the street. Gavrila sent the same Eroshka to follow him and keep watch on him as a spy. Eroshka, seeing from a distance that he had gone into a cookshop with his dog, waited for him to come out again.
She's right enough, a hard-working steady girl. . . But you know very well yourself, Gavrila Andreitch, why that fellow, that wild man of the woods, that monster of the steppes, he's after her, you know. . ." "I know, mate, I know all about it," the butler cut him short in a tone of annoyance: "but there, you see . . ."
The old lady took them, but began again at once in a tearful voice complaining of the dog, of Gavrila, and of her fate, declaring that she was a poor old woman, and that every one had forsaken her, no one pitied her, every one wished her dead. Meanwhile the luckless Mumu had gone on barking, while Gerasim tried in vain to call her away, from the fence.
When Gavrila came to her after morning tea with his report, her first question was: "And how about our wedding is it getting on all right?" He replied, of course, that it was getting on first-rate, and that Kapiton would appear before her to pay his reverence to her that day. The old lady was not quite well; she did not give much time to business.
'Well, we are listening, said Fedya with a patronising air. 'You know Gavrila, I suppose, the carpenter up in the big village? 'Yes, we know him. 'And do you know why he is so sorrowful always, never speaks? do you know? I'll tell you why he's so sorrowful; he went one day, daddy said, he went, brothers, into the forest nutting.
'But you'll deceive us, Gavrila waved back in response. Gerasim looked at him, smiled scornfully, struck himself again on the breast, and slammed-to the door. They all looked at one another in silence. 'What does that mean? Gavrila began. 'He's locked himself in. 'Let him be, Gavrila Andreitch, Stepan advised; 'he'll do it if he's promised.
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