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"You have seen me on the road often enough," said the man, "and I have seen you, Monsieur le Colonel, riding over to the Casa Perucca." "Of course." "You know Perucca's agent, Pietro Andrei?" "Yes." "He was shot in the back on the Olmeta road this afternoon." Colonel Gilbert gave a slight start. "Is that so?" he said at length, quietly, after a pause.
The pressing food problem was placed in the hands of Andrei Shingarev. As Minister of Agriculture Shingarev belonged to the radical left wing of the Cadets. It cannot be said that the composition of the Provisional Government was received with popular satisfaction. It was top-heavy with representatives of the bourgeoisie. There was only one Socialist, Kerensky.
I remember, Shubin struck me much more at first, though I never loved him, and as for Andrei Petrovitch oh, there was a moment when I thought: isn't this he? And with you there was nothing of that sort; but afterwards afterwards you took my heart by storm! 'Have pity on me, began Insarov. He tried to get up, but dropped down on to the sofa again at once.
'To Little Russia, I suppose you mean? 'For shame, Andrei Petrovitch, to reproach me for an act of unpremeditated folly, which I have repented bitterly enough without that. Oh, of course, I behaved like a fool; Anna Vassilyevna most kindly gave me the money for an expedition to Italy, and I went off to the Little Russians to eat dumplings and
I am incapable of depicting the conflict of various sensations which took place within me when, for example, Kolosov came in from the garden with Varia, and her whole face was aglow with ecstatic devotion, exhaustion from excess of bliss.... She so completely lived in his life, was so completely taken up with him, that unconsciously she adopted his ways, looked as he looked, laughed as he laughed.... I can imagine the moments she passed with Andrei, the raptures she owed to him.... While he ... Kolosov did not lose his freedom; in her absence he did not, I suppose, even think of her; he was still the same unconcerned, gay, and happy fellow we had always known him.
On the way back I felt ashamed ... ashamed before Varia, before Andrei, before myself; though they say it is better to cut off an injured limb at once than to keep the patient in prolonged suffering; but who gave me a right to deal such a merciless blow at the heart of a poor girl?... For a long while I could not sleep ... but I fell asleep at last.
Upon my word, I believe you must be putting it on. Shubin lifted up his head. The tears shone bright on his cheeks in the moonlight, but there was a smile on his face. 'Andrei Petrovitch, he said, 'you may think what you please about me. I am even ready to agree with you that I'm hysterical now, but, by God, I'm in love with Elena, and Elena loves you.
'O Elena! he whispered, 'I don't dare to look at you. 'Why? Andrei Petrovitch is so good. I was not ashamed before him. And what have I to be ashamed of? I am ready to tell all the world that I am yours.... And Andrei Petrovitch I trust like a brother. 'He saved me! cried Insarov. 'He is the noblest, kindest of men! 'Yes... And do you know I owe everything to him?
This discovery, I must own, delighted me; I did not feel, I must confess, the slightest indignation against Andrei. The intervals between our visits became longer and longer.... Varia began to meet us with tear-stained eyes.
Bersenyev began to talk to Anna Vassilyevna, and Elena went off to her own room, dropped on her knees and fell to praying, to thanking God. Light, shining tears trickled down her cheeks. Suddenly she was conscious of intense weariness, laid her head down on the pillow, whispered 'poor Andrei Petrovitch! and at once fell asleep with wet eheeks and eyelashes.
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