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When the Iwins arrived I found that, instead of being as delighted as usual to meet Seriosha, I felt a kind of vexation that he should see and be seen by Sonetchka. "HULLO, Woloda! So we are going to dance to-night," said Seriosha, issuing from the drawing-room and taking out of his pocket a brand new pair of gloves. "I suppose it IS necessary to put on gloves?" "Goodness! What shall I do?
Why not try and please us this time?" the girls answered. "You may be Charles or Ernest or the father, whichever you like best," added Katenka as she tried to raise him from the ground by pulling at his sleeve. "No, I'm not going to; it's a tiresome game," said Woloda again, though smiling as if secretly pleased.
Everywhere were rugs, pictures, gardenias, striped hangings, photographs, and curved settees, while on the walls hung guns, pistols, pouches, and the mounted heads of wild beasts. It was the appearance of this apartment which made me aware whom, it was that Woloda had imitated in the scheme of his own sitting-room.
There were heaps of guests about a thousand people, and all of them princes or generals, and there was music, and I danced But, Katenka" I broke off, "you are not listening to me?" "Oh yes, I am listening. You said that you danced ?" "Why are you so serious?" "Well, one cannot ALWAYS be gay." "But you have changed tremendously since Woloda and I first went to Moscow.
Dimitri informed me that, though he did not care for champagne, he would nevertheless join us that evening and drink my health, while Dubkoff remarked that I looked almost like a colonel, and Woloda omitted to congratulate me at all, merely saying in an acid way that he supposed we should now i.e. in two days time be off into the country.
Neither the dust-blackened face of Woloda dozing in a corner, nor the motion of Philip's back, nor the long shadow of our britchka as it came bowling along behind us brought me any relief.
I interrupted. "And then," went on Woloda, smiling tenderly, "kiss her fingers and eyes and lips and nose and feet kiss all of her." "How absurd!" I exclaimed from beneath the pillows. "Ah, you don't understand things," said Woloda with contempt. "I DO understand. It's you who don't understand things, and you talk rubbish, too," I replied, half-crying.
As soon as she stepped from the carriage, Woloda assumed an air of great seriousness and ceremony, and, advancing towards her with much bowing and scraping, said in the tone of one who is presenting something for acceptance: "I have the honour to greet the arrival of our dear Mamma, and to kiss her hand." "Ah, my dear son!" she replied with her beautiful, unvarying smile.
I shall meet much more of the same kind during my life," but at all events Woloda had never yet looked upon Katenka with a man's eyes. All that summer Woloda appeared to find things very wearisome a fact which arose out of that contempt for us all which, as I have said, he made no effort to conceal.
"Hullo, you are caught!" he exclaimed as he ran to Woloda with little short steps and, seizing him round the head, looked at it searchingly. Next he left him, went to the table, and, with a perfectly serious expression on his face, began to blow under the oil-cloth, and to make the sign of the cross over it, "O-oh, what a pity! O-oh, how it hurts! They are angry!
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