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There is war going on there now; wherever you go, I suppose they are firing cannons off all the while... Are you meaning to set off soon? 'Soon... if only papa. He means to appeal to the authorities; he threatens to separate us. Anna Vassilyevna turned her eyes heavenwards. 'No, Lenotchka, he will not do that. I would not myself have consented to this marriage.
"I bought it from the army contractor.... He made me pay for it too, the brigand!" "What's its name?" "Orlando.... But it's a stupid name; I want to change.... Eh bien, eh bien, mon garcon.... What a restless beast it is!" The horse snorted, pawed the ground, and shook the foam off the bit. "Lenotchka, stroke him, don't be afraid."
When he had finished, Lisa praised the motive, Marya Dmitrievna cried, "Charming!" but Gedeonovsky went so far as to exclaim, "Ravishing poetry, and music equally ravishing!" Lenotchka looked with childish reverence at the singer.
Only she felt sorry for them all. 'What are they living for? she thought. 'Are you sleepy, Lenotchka? her mother asked her. She did not hear the question. 'A half untrue insinuation, do you say? These words, sharply uttered by Shubin, suddenly awakened Elena's attention. 'Why, he continued, 'the whole sting lies in that.
"And Marfa Timofyevna," observed Shurotchka. "And Nastasya Karpovna," added Lenotchka, "and Monsier Lemm." "What? is Lemm dead?" inquired Lavretsky. "Yes," replied young Kalitin, "he left here for Odessa; they say some one enticed him there; and there he died." "You don't happen to know,... did he leave any music?" "I don't know; not very likely." All were silent and looked about them.
"No, not Lisaveta Mihalovna, but Elena Mihalovna." "Oh! very well. Lenotchka, go up-stairs with Mr. Lemm." The old man was about to follow the little girl, but Panshin stopped him. "Don't go after the lesson, Christopher Fedoritch," he said. "Lisa Mihalovna and I are going to play a duet of Beethoven's sonata."
Panshin and Lisa remained alone in the room; she fetched the sonata, and opened it; both seated themselves at the piano in silence. Overhead were heard the faint sounds of scales, played by the uncertain fingers of Lenotchka. Christopher Theodor Gottlieb Lemm was born in 1786 in the town of Chemnitz in Saxony. His parents were poor musicians.
At that instant Lavretsky noticed that Lenotchka and Shurotchka were standing near Lisa, and staring in dumb amazement at him. He dropped Lisa's hands, saying hurriedly, "I beg your pardon," and turned away towards the house. "One thing only I beg of you," he added, returning again to Lisa; "don't decide at once, wait a little, think of what I have said to you.
"Lenotchka, pat him," said the young man, "I won't let him be perverse." The little girl again stretched out her hand and timidly patted the quivering nostrils of the horse, who kept fidgeting and champing the bit. "Bravo!" cried Marya Dmitrievna, "but now get off and come in to us."
Lenotchka, transformed into a slim, beautiful young girl, and her betrothed lover a fair-haired officer of hussars; Marya Dmitrievna's son, who had just been married in Petersburg and had come with his young wife for the spring to O ; his wife's sister, a school-girl of sixteen, with glowing cheeks and bright eyes; Shurotchka, grown up and also pretty, made up the youthful household, whose laughter and talk set the walls of the Kalitins' house resounding.
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