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Updated: May 11, 2025
He held her hand a long time and, looking into her merry, sly, naive eyes, said: "For a woman like you, Aksinya Abramovna, I should be ready to do anything you please. Only say when we can meet where no one will interfere with us?" "Why, when you please." And since then the elderly fop drives up to the shop almost every day to drink beer. And the beer is horrid, bitter as wormwood.
When she goes to the post the head of the postal department jumps up and says to her: "I humbly beg you to be seated, Aksinya Abramovna!" A certain landowner, middle-aged but foppish, in a tunic of fine cloth and patent leather high boots, sold her a horse, and was so carried away by talking to her that he knocked down the price to meet her wishes.
For God's sake, for Christ's sake, write to your sister Klavdia Abramovna. Let her sell and pawn everything she has; let her send us the money. We will go away from here. Oh, Lord," he went on miserably, "to have one peep at Moscow! If I could see it in my dreams, the dear place!" And when the evening came on, and it was dark in the hut, it was so dismal that it was hard to utter a word.
"Now tell us about yourself," said she. "One hears such improbable wonders about you." "Yes," replied Pierre with the smile of mild irony now habitual to him. "They even tell me wonders I myself never dreamed of! Mary Abramovna invited me to her house and kept telling me what had happened, or ought to have happened, to me. Stepan Stepanych also instructed me how I ought to tell of my experiences.
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