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And as far as Karl Marx is concerned, just remember, that great books are equally accessible to the understanding both of a scholar and an unlettered peasant, if only comprehensibly presented. And every great thought is simple." Lichonin found Liubka at the place agreed upon, on a bench of the boulevard. She went home with him very unwillingly.
"The charms of the family hearth have begun," he thought involuntarily; still, he got up from his chair, walked up to Liubka, and having taken her by the hand, drew her to him and patted her on the head. "My dear, my darling sister," he said touchingly and falsely; "that which has happened to-day must never more be repeated.
Little by little, when she had by degrees completely ceased to be embarrassed before the prince, they sang together more and more frequently. Liubka proved to have a very soft and low contralto, even though thin, on which her past life with its colds, drinking, and professional excesses had left absolutely no traces.
Opposite, out of the dram-shop, a servant pops out for a minute a curly, besotted young fellow with a cast in his eye and runs into the neighbouring public house. "Prokhor Ivanovich, oh Prokhor Ivanovich," shouts Niura, "don't you want some? I'll treat you to some sunflower seeds!" "Come on in and pay us a visit," Liubka chimes in.
"What am I doing?" his reason suddenly cried out within him in terror; but some one else answered for Lichonin: "But I'm not doing anything. I only want to ask if she's sleeping comfortably, and whether she doesn't want some tea." But Liubka suddenly awoke, opened her eyes, blinked them for a moment and opened them again.
For this ignominy Liubka received a rouble, but did not dare to protest: the previous life in the house had entirely eaten away her personal initiative, mobility and energy. Later, several times running, he even did not pay her anything at all.
Simanovsky, who had gotten into trouble, said a few general consolatory words in a judicious bass, such as the noble fathers used in olden comedies, and led his ladies off. But he was fated to play one more very shameful, distressing, and final role in the free life of Liubka.
Liubka with difficulty clambered upward. It seemed to her that now, now, two steps more, and she would drop straight down on the steps and fall into a sleep from which nothing would be able to wake her. But Lichonin was saying all the time: "My dear! I can see you are tired. But that's nothing. Lean upon me. We are going upwards all the time! Always higher and higher!
Liubka clapped her palms and squealed out in delight: "Mister Professor, more! Please, more, more! ..."
Whereupon Liubka jumped up from her place, and told him firmly that she, even though a quondam prostitute, still believed in God and would not allow Him to be offended in her presence; and if he would continue such nonsense, then she would complain to Vassil Vassilich.
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