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Updated: June 2, 2025
Among us a lad of short stature is running about; from time to time he screams in a shrill, monotonous voice: "Daddy, I'm afraid!" This shrill cry makes me sick at heart and I also begin to be afraid.... Of what? I myself do not know. Only I feel that a great, great calamity is on its way, and is drawing near. And the little lad keeps screaming. Akh, if I could only get away from here!
In the forehead! On the ceiling! Akh, thou rascal, Paul de Kock!" Luckily, he did not catch sight of me, and I hastily beat a retreat. I shall not dilate, gentlemen, on my amazement at the sight of such a change. And, as a matter of fact, how could that peaceable, modest lad suddenly turn into a tipsy good-for-nothing?
'I have done no one any good, I have helped no one, I have not toiled! He was very much afflicted over that same.... He used to say, 'Our people toil, but what are we doing?... Akh, Nikolái Nikoláitch, he was a fine man and he loved me ... and I.... Akh, forgive me...." Here the young woman actually burst into tears. I would have liked to comfort her, but I did not know how. "Have you a baby?"
Je l'ai fait souffrir et souvent. I was outrageous. AKH! What a marvellous time that was! Do I bore you?" "No, not at all." "Then I will tell you about our evenings. I used to go that stairway, every flower-pot I knew, the door-handle, all was so lovely, so familiar; then the vestibule, her room. . . . No, it will never, never come back to me again!
Akh Chort yeekh! vazmee!" and the restless little man finally stopped from sheer exhaustion, and began pacing nervously across the room, while the Major related our adventures, gave him the latest news from Russia, explained our plans, the object of our expedition, told him of the murder of Lincoln, the end of the Rebellion, the latest news from the French invasion of Mexico, the gossip of the Imperial Court, and no end of other news which had been old with us for six months, but of which the poor exiled ispravnik had never heard a word.
But my resources were not yet exhausted, and I hurled monosyllable, dissyllable, and polysyllable at their devoted heads, shouted "Akh! Te shelma! Proclataya takaya! Smatree! Ya tibi dam!" but all in vain; the dogs were evidently insensible to rhetorical fireworks of this description, and manifested their indifference by a still slower gait.
And at last he trudged on again along the highway. What was there to do? I followed him.... Akh, what a journey that was, my dear sir! Great as had been our joy on the way to Vorónezh, just so great was the horror of the return! I would try to speak to him, and he would begin to gnash his teeth at me over his shoulder, precisely like a tiger or a hyena!
"Akh al-Jahalah" = brother of ignorance, an Ignorantin; one "really and truly" ignorant; which is the value of "Ahk" in such phrases as a "brother of poverty," or, "of purity." In Anglo-India they have become "Hobson and Jobson." The Bresl. Edit. I left Matilda at the U- niversity of Gottingen. Europe and England especially, still talks endless absurdity upon the subject.
Here I bit my tongue, but the young woman understood my unspoken thought.... She darted a swift glance at me, then dropped her eyes, smiled sadly, and immediately said, "Akh, no! He had abandoned that entirely from the time he made my acquaintance.... Only, what health had he?!... It was utterly ruined. As soon as he gave up drinking, his malady immediately manifested itself.
We then drank a farewell stirrup cup, which our bareheaded host brought out to us after we had taken our seats, and were just about to start, when Baron Maidel shouted to me, with an air of serious concern, "Have you got a club for the drivers and station-masters?" "No," I replied, "I don't need a club; I can talk to them in the most persuasive Russian you ever heard." "Akh! Neilza!"
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