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'O Elena! said Insarov, 'what chains every word of yours fastens on me! 'Why talk of chains? she interposed. 'We are free people, you and I. Yes, she went on, looking musingly on the floor, while with one hand she still stroked his hair, 'I experienced much lately of which I had never had any idea!
I heard a splash there he went. Long after the carriages had started, long after the castle of Tsaritsino was out of sight, Uvar Ivanovitch was still unable to regain his composure. Shubin, who was again with him in the carriage, began to cry shame on him at last. Insarov felt ashamed. He thought that she was condemning his action; but she did not condemn him.
Shubin returned to Moscow with Anna Vassilyevna; Bersenyev, a few days later. Insarov was sitting in his room, and for the third time looking through the letters brought him from Bulgaria by hand; they were afraid to send them by post. He was much disturbed by them.
'I am mistress here, you know, so you ought not to have any secrets from me, she said, trying to seem at ease, and standing with her back to him. 'What a lot of papers! what are these letters? Insarov knitted his brows. 'Those letters? he said, getting up, 'you can read them. Elena turned them over in her hand.
He had no servant; but without any assistance he put his room to rights, arranged the furniture, dusted and swept the floor. He had special trouble with the writing table, which would not fit into the recess in the wall assigned for it; but Insarov, with the silent persistence peculiar to him succeeded in getting his own way with it.
He deftly drew off the cloth, and displayed to Bersenyev's eyes a statuette in Dantan's style, also of Insarov. Anything cleverer and more spiteful could not be imagined. The young Bulgarian was represented as a ram standing on his hind-legs, butting forward with his horns.
'I have money, put in Elena. 'Eighty roubles. 'Well, that's not much, observed Insarov; 'but everything's a help. 'But I can get more. I will borrow. I will ask mamma.... No, I won't ask mamma for any.... But I can sell my watch.... I have earrings, too, and two bracelets... and lace. 'Money's not the chief difficulty, Elena; the passport; your passport, how about that? 'Yes, how about it?
In Elena he detected signs of repressed annoyance against him Shubin and that was all. He looked at Bersenyev and at Insarov, and compared their faces from a sculptor's point of view. 'They are neither of them good-looking, he thought, 'the Bulgarian has a characteristic face there now it's in a good light; the Great-Russian is better adapted for painting; there are no lines, there's expression.
After dinner he proposed to Insarov that he should take him to the Stahovs; but he replied that he had intended to devote the evening to correspondence with his Bulgarians, and so he would ask him to put off the visit to the Stahovs till next day.
'See, there is a white sail, is not that it? Insarov gazed seaward into the distance to where Elena was pointing.
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