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"Supper?" repeated the Count, rather vaguely. "I believe I had forgotten all about it. I will go presently." "The Count is reserving himself for to-morrow," said an ironical voice in the background. Akulina entered the shop from the workroom, a guttering candle in a battered candlestick in one hand, and a number of gaily coloured pasteboard boxes tucked under the other arm.
I am always ready to forgive and forget, as they say, though I am only a weak woman." "That is very kind of you," observed Schmidt, with a glitter in his eyes which Akulina did not observe. "I guessed the truth, did I not?" "Not exactly. The trouble is rather more serious than that.
I know you, Christian Gregorovitch" at the thought of the lost money Akulina broke at last into her native language and gave the reins to her fury in good Russian "yes, I know you, and him, and his friends and your friends, and I see the good yellow money flying out of the window like a flight of canary birds when the cage is opened, and I see you grinning like Player-Ape over the vile Vienna puppet, and winding up its abominable music as though you were turning the key upon your money in the safe instead of listening to the tune of its departure.
He's not long come into our parts; and here he's graciously pleased to visit us. In such weather! The wet's simply trickling from him, poor dear man, in streams! And you should see the chains on him such a lot! 'The blessing of God! the blessing of God! the voice was heard again. 'Akulina! Hey, Akulina! Akulinushka friend! where is our paradise? Our fair paradise of bliss?
Suddenly a cry of horror was heard, and the woman, with her eyes closed, and crazed by fear, ran down the ladder like a cat. "Illitch," she cried, "has hanged himself!" Poor Akulina ran up the ladder before any of the people, who had gathered from the surrounding houses, could prevent her.
A wretched neurasthenic, an idle gentleman . . . . From the first day I knew that my dreams of a life of labour and of a vineyard were worthless. As for love, I ought to tell you that living with a woman who has read Spencer and has followed you to the ends of the earth is no more interesting than living with any Anfissa or Akulina.
After untying it he stood for a few moments looking silently at the baby. Akulina did not notice this proceeding, and with her cakes on the board went to place them in a corner. Polikey quickly hid the rope beneath his coat, and again seated himself on the bed. "What is it that troubles you, Illitch?" inquired Akulina. "You are not yourself." "I have not slept," he answered.
Fischelowitz looked after him a few seconds, as though expecting that he would turn back and say something more, and then walked briskly in the direction of his shop. He found Akulina standing at the door which led into the workroom, in such a position as to be able to serve a customer should any chance to enter, and yet so placed as to see the greater part of her audience.
As soon as Aksiutka had delivered her message she left the room in the same abrupt manner in which she had entered. Akulina, without saying a word, got up and brought her husband's boots to him. They were poor, worn-out things which some soldier had given him, and his wife did not glance at him as she handed them to him. "Are you going to change your shirt, Illitch?" she asked, at last.
Akulina supposed that this habit belonged to his madness. Others, who understood him better, counted it to him for righteousness, and even Dumnoff, the rough peasant, showed at times a friendly interest in him, which is not usually felt by the unpunctual borrower towards the uncomplaining lender. But Akulina could understand none of these things.
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