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Papa came out behind him and turned aside into the drawing-room. "Do you know what I have just decided to do?" he asked gaily as he laid a hand upon Mamma's shoulder. "What, my love?" "To take Karl Ivanitch with the children. There will be room enough for him in the carriage. They are used to him, and he seems greatly attached to them.
Yakov Ivanitch used often to talk of you, she added, getting up and bowing; 'he always loved you and thought of you. I met Elisei Timofeitch the day before yesterday, and wondered whether you wouldn't be willing to assist me, as I'm out of a place just now.... 'With the greatest pleasure, Maria ... let me ask, what's your name from your father?
You won't know his honour.... He's not long for this world, I'm afraid. That's how it is we've stopped here, or we had been going on to Odessa for his health. 'Where do you come from? 'From Siberia, sir. 'From Siberia? 'Yes, sir. Yakov Ivanitch was sent to a post out there. It was there his honour got his wound. 'Do you mean to say he went into the military service? 'Oh no, sir.
A long goods train was passing, dragged by two engines, breathing heavily, and flinging puffs of crimson fire out of their funnels. The foremost engine uttered a piercing whistle at the crossing in sight of the station. "It's whistling, . . ." said Dashutka. The train had passed at last, and the signalman lifted the barrier without haste. "Is that you, Yakov Ivanitch?
'I warned you, my dear Arkady Nikolaitch, began Vassily Ivanitch, 'that we live, so to say, bivouacking.... 'There, stop that, what are you apologising for? Bazarov interrupted. 'Kirsanov knows very well we're not Croesuses, and that you have no butler. Where are we going to put him, that's the question?
As these thoughts crossed my mind I stood looking sadly at the black ribbons on my shoes, After a few words to Karl Ivanitch about the depression of the barometer and an injunction to Jakoff not to feed the hounds, since a farewell meet was to be held after luncheon, Papa disappointed my hopes by sending us off to lessons though he also consoled us by promising to take us out hunting later.
It seemed to him that he had not been lying long with his head pressed to the back of the sofa, but when he opened his eyes slanting rays of sunlight were already shining on the floor through the two windows of the little hotel room. Father Christopher and Ivan Ivanitch were not in the room.
Yakov Ivanitch had long ago taken the horse to the stable, dispatched the flour to the station, and twice taken up the Psalms to read, and yet the evening was still far off. Aglaia has already washed all the floors, and, having nothing to do, was tidying up her chest, the lid of which was pasted over on the inside with labels off bottles.
"It seems to me, Fedor Ivanitch," Lisa murmured in a low voice when she did not agree with the person whom she was talking, she always dropped her voice; and now too she was deeply moved "happiness on earth does not depend on ourselves."
“His name is not Trifon and not Sabaneyev, it’s Tchizhov,” put in suddenly a third woman, who had hitherto been silent, listening gravely. “Alexey Ivanitch is his name. Tchizhov, Alexey Ivanitch.” “Not a doubt about it, it’s Tchizhov,” a fourth woman emphatically confirmed the statement. The bewildered youth gazed from one to another.
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