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"Ah," she exclaimed, in a shrill voice that the young man had never heard, "who is ridiculous enough to send me a bouquet? Why a bouquet? And why tonight of all nights? I am not going to a ball; I am not a girl engaged to be married. But some people are always ridiculous." She turned back to the door, opened it, and called out: "Nastasia!"
As he carried Nastasia off, he turned and grinned horribly in the officer's face, and with low malice observed: "Tfu! look what the fellow got! Look at the blood on his cheek! Ha, ha!"
"This, gentlemen, is a hundred thousand roubles," said Nastasia Philipovna, addressing the company in general, "here, in this dirty parcel. This afternoon Rogojin yelled, like a madman, that he would bring me a hundred thousand in the evening, and I have been waiting for him all the while.
No one knows, no eye has seen or ever will see, how the grain which has been confided to the earth's bosom becomes instinct with vitality, and ripens into stirring, blossoming life. Ten o'clock struck, and Marfa Timofeevna went up-stairs to her room with Nastasia Carpovna.
"What are you thinking of, Nastasia Petrovna?" inquired Chichikov. "I am thinking that I scarcely know what to do. Perhaps I had better sell you some hemp?" "What do I want with hemp? Pardon me, but just when I have made to you a different proposal altogether you begin fussing about hemp!
What could have induced you to ask such a question?" she replied, quietly and seriously, and even, apparently, with some astonishment. "No? No?" shouted Rogojin, almost out of his mind with joy. "You are not going to, after all? And they told me oh, Nastasia Philipovna they said you had promised to marry him, HIM! As if you COULD do it! him pooh!
On reaching his landlady's landing, he found the kitchen door wide open, as usual, and he peeped in, in order to make sure that, in the absence of Nastasia, her mistress was not there, and that the doors of the other rooms were closed. But great was his annoyance to find Nastasia there herself, engaged in hanging clothes on a line.
I have seen a man for the first time in my life. Goodbye, Afanasy Ivanovitch and thanks!" The Rogojin gang followed their leader and Nastasia Philipovna to the entrance-hall, laughing and shouting and whistling. In the hall the servants were waiting, and handed her her fur cloak. Martha, the cook, ran in from the kitchen. Nastasia kissed them all round.
No doubt he is sorry now. Perhaps I had better go and see what he is doing," added Colia, running off. "Thank God, I have got mother away, and put her to bed without another scene! Gania is worried and ashamed not without reason! What a spectacle! I have come to thank you once more, prince, and to ask you if you knew Nastasia Philipovna before?" "No, I have never known her."
I am only marrying her well, because she wished it. It means nothing it's all the same. She would certainly have died. I see now that that marriage with Rogojin was an insane idea. I understand all now that I did not understand before; and, do you know, when those two stood opposite to one another, I could not bear Nastasia Philipovna's face!
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