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Suddenly I see Nilovna running; off I am, after you." "How did you make your escape?" Vyesovshchikov sat down awkwardly on the edge of the sofa and pressed Yegor's hand. "I don't know how," he said in an embarrassed manner. "Simply a chance. I was taking my airing, and the prisoners began to beat the overseer of the jail.
And the floor is filled with frozen cockroaches, and even the mice are frozen, too, I suppose. Pelagueya Nilovna, will you let me sleep here to-night, please?" he asked hoarsely without looking at her. "Why, of course, Nikolay! You needn't even ask it!" the mother quickly replied. She felt embarrassed and ill at ease in Nikolay's presence, and did not know what to speak to him about.
And one man is still needed for it." "Won't I do?" the mother asked quietly. All three looked at her in silence for a short while. "No, it's too hard for you, Nilovna," said Nikolay. "You'll have to live outside the city and stop your visits to Pavel, and in general " With a sigh the mother said: "For Pasha it won't be a great loss.
If I could see them together, if only for one day!" exclaimed Nilovna, ready to weep. "Yes, a bit of happiness is good for everybody." "But there are no people who want only a bit of happiness," remarked Nikolay; "and when there's much of it, it becomes cheap." Sofya sat herself at the piano, and began to play something low and doleful.
Two other men came in from the porch: the old smelter Tveryakov and his lodger, the stoker Rybin, a staid, dark-colored peasant. He said in a thick, loud voice: "Good evening, Nilovna." She dressed herself, all the while speaking to herself in a low voice, so as to give herself courage: "What sort of a thing is this? They come at night. People are asleep and they come "
The girl usually came to Nilovna on the days when the mother had visited Pavel. "Well, how is he?" "He's well." "Did you hand him the note?" "Of course! I stuck it into his hands very cleverly." "Did he read it?" "On the spot? How could he?" "Oh, yes; I forgot! Let us wait another week, one week longer. Do you think he'll agree to it?" "I don't know I think he will," the mother deliberated.
He's in good spirits." "Give him my regards," the girl would request, and then disappear. Sometimes the mother complained to Sashenka because Pavel was detained so long and no date was yet set for his trial. Sashenka looked gloomy, and maintained silence, her fingers twitching. Nilovna was tempted to say to her: "My dear girl, why, I know you love him, I know."
If his mother had lain across his path, he would have stepped over her body and gone his way. Wouldn't he have stepped over you, Nilovna?" "He would," said the mother shuddering and looking around. She heaved a heavy sigh. Sofya silently stroked her hand. "There's a man for you!" said Rybin in a subdued voice, his dark eyes roving about the company. They all became silent again.
Nilovna thought she heard in the girl's voice the familiar sound of fear and anguish, and her words fell upon the mother's heart like heavy, icy drops of water. "No, I have made up my mind. Nothing can make me give it up!" "Not even if I beg you if I " Pavel suddenly began to speak rapidly with a peculiar sternness. "You ought not to speak that way. Why you? You ought not!"
"I'm bored already jumped out of prison what for? My only occupation is hiding and there I was learning. Pavel so pressed your brains it was one pure delight. And Andrey, too, polished us fellows zealously. Well, Nilovna, did you hear how they decided in regard to the escape? Will they arrange it?" "They'll find out day after to-morrow," she repeated, sighing involuntarily.
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