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She gazes at me with large, evil eyes which bode me ill ... the eyes of a bird of prey.... I bend down to her face, to her eyes.... Again there is the same film, the same blind, dull visage as before.... "Akh!" I think ... "this old woman is my Fate that Fate which no man can escape! "I cannot get away! I cannot get away! What madness.... I must make an effort."
Are you just from America? I sent a Cossack. Did you meet him? How did you cross the tundras; with the Koraks? Akh! those proclatye Koraks! Any news from St. Petersburg? You must come over and dine with me. How long will you stay in town? You can take a bath now before dinner.
The public caused her much grief without that; and Kátya had only just begun to live. I cannot now ... so suddenly.... I will collect my forces.... I will make an effort.... Akh, I loved her too greatly!" Anna turned away; she was on the point of bursting into sobs.
The kind old woman came to his door a couple of times, applied her ear to the key-hole, and merely sighed and whispered her prayer.... "It has begun!" she thought.... "And he is only five-and-twenty.... Akh, it is early, early!" Akátoff was very much out of sorts all the following day. "What is the matter, Yásha?" Platonída Ivánovna said to him.
In a moment, the other sleigh, which was only a short distance behind, loomed up through the darkness and its driver shouted to our man, "What's the matter?" "Oootonoole!" "Get out your ropes, quick, while I run to the shore for some driftwood. The horses will freeze and sink in a few minutes. Akh! My God! My God!
Then I fell to weeping, and sat down on the cottage floor, and how I did beat my palm against the ground! 'Thy bowels are insatiable! I said.... 'Thou hast devoured her ... devour me also! Akh, Masha!" "Masha," he added in a suddenly lowered voice.
And again there rose up before him the image of Clara with her tear-filled eyes riveted upon him, and her clenched hands raised to her lips.... "Akh, I won't think of it, I won't think of it ..." he whispered.... "What is the use?" In this manner the whole day passed.
What if she, in conclusion, did not come to that tryst with the object of obtaining declarations of love at all?" But at that moment Clara before her parting on the boulevard rose up before him.... He recalled that sorrowful expression on her face, and those tears, and those words: "Akh, you have understood nothing!" No!
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