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I tried to convince her that this was just a peasant superstition, but she announced that she had seen death cups, many of them, and had seen people who had been killed by them. And then brokenly, and with many heavy gestures of hesitation, she told me the story. Nearly seventy miles northwest of us, up near her old home, so she said, a Pole named Andrei Przenikowski and his wife used to live.
He was good-hearted, and of an affable demeanour, not without a certain stateliness: I always pictured to myself the tsar Mihail Fedorovitch as like him. The whole life of Andrei Nikolaevitch was passed in the punctual fulfilment of every observance established from old days, in strict conformity with all the usages of the old orthodox holy Russian mode of life.
In the old days it was easy enough to get food in the macquis. One could come down into the villages at night. But now it is different. It is a hard life there now, and one may easily die of starvation. There are many who, like Pietro Andrei, are friendly with the gendarmes." He finished with a gesture of supreme disgust, as if friendship with a gendarme were the basest of crimes.
Dodd and I went off in another roar of laughter, which puzzled poor Andrei more and more. "Where did you learn?" Dodd asked. "The sailors of a whaling-ship learned it to me when I was in Petropavlovsk, two years ago; isn't it a good song?" he said, evidently fearing that there might be something improper in the sentiment.
When he smiled, his eyes blinked, and his lips puckered up, which gave him a very good-humoured appearance. 'Andrei Petrovitch most likely told you too that I went away with some unattractive people, he said, still smiling. Elena was a little confused, but she felt at once that Insarov must always be told the truth. 'Yes, she said decisively. 'What did you think of me? he asked her suddenly.
Her heart seemed turned to stone, she did not feel it, but the veins in her head throbbed painfully, her hair stifled her, and her lips were dry. 'He will come... he did not say good-bye to mamma... he will not deceive me... Can Andrei Petrovitch have been right?
I promised, though, to see you home, and I will keep my promise. He got up. 'What a night! silvery, dark, youthful! How sweet it must be to-night for men who are loved! How sweet for them not to sleep! Will you sleep, Andrei Petrovitch? Bersenyev made no answer, and quickened his pace. 'Where are you hurrying to? Shubin went on.
What a sudden decision! Or have you had news of some sort? 'I have had no news, replied Insarov; 'but on thinking things over, I find I cannot stop here. 'How can that be? 'Andrei Petrovitch, said Insarov, 'be so kind... don't insist, please, I am very sorry myself to be leaving you, but it can't be helped. Bersenyev looked at him intently.
"Well, of course I shot Andrei Perucca the brother thirty years ago. We all know that. That is ancient history." Lory looked at the little white-haired, placid man, and said no word. It was perhaps the wisest thing to do. When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
For that matter, Chichikov himself had noticed that Tientietnikov was in the habit of drawing heads of which each representation exactly resembled the rest. Once, as he sat tapping his silver snuff-box after luncheon, Chichikov remarked: "One thing you lack, and only one, Andrei Ivanovitch." "What is that?" asked his host. "A female friend or two," replied Chichikov.
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