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"His honor's not up yet," said the porter, looking at her attentively. Anna had not anticipated that the absolutely unchanged hall of the house where she had lived for nine years would so greatly affect her. Memories sweet and painful rose one after another in her heart, and for a moment she forgot what she was here for. "Would you kindly wait?" said Kapitonitch, taking off her fur cloak.
'Porfiry Kapitonitch, said the latter, and in such an unconcerned voice, you know, 'I did not know you had a dog. What sort is it, a setter? 'I haven't a dog, I said, 'and never have had one! 'You haven't? Why, what's this? 'What's this? said I, 'why, light the candle and then you will see for yourself. 'Isn't it a dog? 'No. Vassily Vassilitch turned over in bed.
'What do you make of it? said I. 'What do you bid me make of it, Porfiry Kapitonitch? It's sorcery! 'You are a foolish fellow, I said, 'hold your tongue with your sorcery.... And our voices quavered like a bird's and we were trembling in the dark as though we were in a fever. I lighted a candle, no dog, no sound, only us two, as white as chalk.
As he went into the entry, Alexey Alexandrovitch, as it were, got out his resolution from the remotest corner of his brain, and mastered it thoroughly. Its meaning ran: "If it's a trick, then calm contempt and departure. If truth, do what is proper." The porter opened the door before Alexey Alexandrovitch rang. The porter, Kapitonitch, looked queer in an old coat, without a tie, and in slippers.
'You should try being away from home for a few days, Porfiry Kapitonitch, he said, 'perhaps this abomination would leave you. And I must tell you: my neighbour was a man of immense intellect. He managed his mother-in-law wonderfully: he fastened an I. O. U. upon her; he must have chosen a sentimental moment!
"Well, Kapitonitch?" said Seryozha, coming back rosy and good- humored from his walk the day before his birthday, and giving his overcoat to the tall old hall porter, who smiled down at the little person from the height of his long figure. "Well, has the bandaged clerk been here today? Did papa see him?" "He saw him.
Korney, the valet, going down to the hall porter's room, asked who had let her in, and how it was he had done so, and ascertaining that Kapitonitch had admitted her and shown her up, he gave the old man a talking-to.
"And then, gentlemen, I howled like a calf and I am not ashamed to say so; I stooped down to the friend who had saved my life twice over and kissed his head, again and again. 'How can you, Porfiry Kapitonitch, she said, 'distress yourself so about a dog? "Though I did not agree with Praskovya, I went home. And next day a soldier of the garrison shot the mad dog.
The hall porter was doggedly silent, but when Korney told him he ought to be sent away, Kapitonitch darted up to him, and waving his hands in Korney's face, began: "Oh yes, to be sure you'd not have let her in! After ten years' service, and never a word but of kindness, and there you'd up and say, 'Be off, go along, get away with you! Oh yes, you're a shrewd one at politics, I dare say!
And he learned from Kapitonitch, from his nurse, from Nadinka, from Vassily Lukitch, but not from his teachers. The spring his father and his teachers reckoned upon to turn their mill-wheels had long dried up at the source, but its waters did their work in another channel.
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