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And you, Marfinka, find out if that person, Markushka, will have anything. But don't go yourself, send Egorka." Marfinka seized the carp's head with two fingers, but when he began to wave his tail hither and thither, she uttered a loud cry, hastily dropped him on the floor, and fled down the corridor.
"What are these things for, Grandmother?" asked Raisky. "He doesn't eat anything." "But the other one, if he returns?" "What other one?" "Who but Markushka? He will want something to eat. You found him with our invalid." "I will go to Mark, Granny, and tell him what you say." "For goodness' sake don't do that, Borushka. Mark will laugh at me."
If I thought at all I thought of these rooms in which lives the only woman who loves me and is loved by me, you alone in the whole world. And now," he said, turning to Marfinka, "I want to win my sisters too." His aunt took off her spectacles and gazed at him. "In all my days I have never seen anything like it," she said. "Here the only person with no roots like that is Markushka."
"But you did all that because activity is a pleasure to you. All this care and trouble is a pleasant stimulant, keeps you busy. If Markushka came to you, you would receive him in the same fashion." "You are right, Cousin," broke in Marfinka. "Grandmother is kindness itself, but she tries to disguise it." "Don't give your opinion when it is not asked.
She contradicts her Grandmother only when you are here, Boris Pavlovich; at other times she is modest enough. And now the ideas she suddenly takes into her head. I? entertain Markushka!" "You did as you pleased," continued Raisky. "And then when it entered my head too to do as I pleased, I disturbed your arrangements and made a breach in your despotism. Isn't that so, Granny?
"What sort of person is this Markushka. Leonti Koslov writes about him. How is Leonti, Granny? I must look him up." "How should he be? He crouches in one spot with a book, and his wife in another. But he does not even see what goes on under his nose, and can any good come from his friendship with this Markushka.
"You have two houses, land, peasants, silver and glass, and talk of wandering about from one shelter to another like a beggar, like Markushka, the vagrant." "Markushka again! I must certainly make his acquaintance." "No, don't do that and add to your Grandmother's anxieties. If you see him, make your escape." "But why?" "He will lead you astray." "That's of no consequence, Grandmother.
Marfinka coloured, smoothed her hair, gave a tug to her fichu, and cast a glance in the mirror. Raisky shook his finger at her, making her colour more deeply. "The person who stayed one night here," said Vassilissa to Raisky, "is also asking for you." "Markushka?" asked Tatiana Markovna in a horrified tone. "Yes," said Vassilissa. Raisky hurried out. "How glad he is, how he rushes to meet him.
Only the other day your friend came here to complain that that Markushka was destroying books from your library. You know, don't you, that the library from the old house has been installed in Koslov's house?" Raisky hummed an air from "Il Barbiere." "You are an extraordinary man," cried his aunt angrily. "Why did you come at all? Do talk sensibly."
Tatiana Markovna, who came in at this moment, offered him some drops of cordial in a teaspoon. "No, Grandmother," he cried, still laughing violently. "Don't give me drops, but three hundred roubles." "What do you want the money for?" said Tatiana Markovna hesitating. "Is it for Markushka again. You had much better ask him to return the eighty roubles he has had."
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