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Akulina was so sweet at that instant; her whole soul was confidingly and passionately laid bare before him, full of longing and caressing tenderness, while he... he dropped the corn-flowers on the grass, pulled out of the side pocket of his coat a round eye-glass set in a brass rim, and began sticking it in his eye; but however much he tried to hold it with his frowning eyebrow, his pursed-up cheek and nose, the eye-glass kept tumbling out and falling into his hand.
'You're not a fool, Akulina, he said at last, 'so don't talk nonsense. I desire your good do you understand me? To be sure, you're not a fool not altogether a mere rustic, so to say; and your mother, too, wasn't always a peasant. Still you've no education so you ought to do what you're told. 'But it's fearful, Viktor Alexandritch. 'O-oh! that's nonsense, my dear; a queer thing to be afraid of!
And then because Akulina has the courage to tell you the truth, and to tell you that your fine Count is no count, and that his friends get from you ten times the money he earns, then you turn on me like a bear, ready to bite off my head, and you tell me to choose my language! Is there no shame in you, Christian Gregorovitch, or is there also no understanding?
His perception cannot possibly be so dull as yours, Christian Gregorovitch, my little husband." Akulina paused for breath after her tremendous invective, which, indeed, was only intended by her for the preface of the real discourse, so fertile was her imagination and so thoroughly roused was her eloquence by the sense of injury received.
It was evident to him that Akulina had out of spite concocted the letter, and had managed to have it posted by some friend in Russia. He was not satisfied with one expletive, nor with many. The words he used need not be translated for the reader of the English language.
It seemed hard to realize how so many persons managed to live in such close quarters. Polikey's wife, Akulina, did the washing, spun and wove, bleached her linen, cooked and baked, and found time also to quarrel and gossip with her neighbors.
'We shall see each other, we shall see each other. If not next year then later. The master wants to enter the service in Petersburg, I fancy, he went on, pronouncing his words with careless condescension through his nose; 'and perhaps we shall go abroad too. 'You will forget me, Viktor Alexandritch, said Akulina mournfully. 'No, why so?
"Glory to Thee, O Lord!" said Akulina, as she arose and made the sign of the cross. "God, I am sure, will bless you, Illitch," she added, in a whisper, so that the people on the other side of the partition could not hear what she said, all the while holding on to his sleeve. "Illitch," she cried at last, excitedly, "for God's sake promise me that you will not touch a drop of vodki.
"Yes," answered the latter, trying to assume a doubtful tone of voice. "I believe in fact, I did see him for a moment " Akulina smiled to herself, proud of her own acuteness. "I thought so," she said. "And he has made some trouble about that wretched doll " "How did you guess that?" asked Schmidt, turning and ascending a few steps. He was very much astonished.
Akulina noticed that he was very pale and that his face bore an expression of suffering as if he would like to have cried but could not do so. But she did not stop to study it, but excitedly inquired: "What! Illitch, is everything all right with you?" He slowly muttered something, but his wife could not understand what he said. "What!" she cried out, "have you been to see our mistress?"
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