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She criticized us with a freedom and publicity that made her funnier to us than we were funny to her. It was not an endearing thing to do or a very intelligent one. It was, in fact, rather antipathetic." "Antip I call it the actions of a bug!" "You can see how it all left Gerald. The Violet he cared for was obviously no more. Worse than that, she had probably never been.
The village elder, Antip Syedelnikov, as swarthy and black-haired as a gypsy, went up to the hut with an axe, and hacked out the windows one after another no one knew why then began chopping up the roof. "Women, water!" he shouted. "Bring the engine! Look sharp!" The peasants, who had been drinking in the tavern just before, dragged the engine up.
"How should he be other than anxious," said his aunt, "when he is tied to a wife like Marina Antipovna? Do you remember Antip? Well, she is his daughter. But for his marriage he is a treasure. He does my important business, sells the corn, and collects the money. He is honest and practical, but fate deals her blows where she will, and every man must bear his own burden.
And what's his offence?... He had some wrangle in meeting with him, the agent, and he lost all patience, I suppose, and of course he wouldn't stand it.... A great matter, truly, to make so much of! So he began pecking at him, Antip. Now he'll eat him up altogether. You see, he's such a dog. Such a cur God forgive my transgressions! he knows whom to fall upon.
I thought of Antip, and told him what I had seen. 'There, commented Anpadist, 'he will eat him up now; he'll simply eat the man up. The bailiff will beat him now. Such a poor, unlucky chap, come to think of it!
"Accept, Antip," whispered the boxer eagerly, leaning past the back of Hippolyte's chair to give his friend this piece of advice. "Take it for the present; we can see about more later on." "Look here, Mr. "Really, really, gentlemen," cried the prince in great agitation, "you are misunderstanding me again. In the first place, Mr. Keller, you have greatly overestimated my fortune in your article.
Antip puffed out his cheeks, the fire roared and hissed, and the glow was reflected in the samovar. The old man crumpled up his cap and said after a moment's thought: "You give it me back." The swarthy elder looked quite black, and was like a magician; he turned round to Osip and said sternly and rapidly: "It all depends on the rural captain.
"Yes," he would say, standing with his arms akimbo, "yes.... A week after the Exaltation of the Cross I sold my hay willingly at thirty kopecks a pood.... Well and good.... So you see I was taking the hay in the morning with a good will; I was interfering with no one. In an unlucky hour I see the village elder, Antip Syedelnikov, coming out of the tavern.
'It is only that last night I could not return him his passport, because I came home late; so I handed it to Antip Prochorov, the bell-ringer, for him to take care of. 'Bell-ringer, indeed! Then HE gave you a passport? 'No; I did not receive a passport from him either. 'What? and here the Captain shouts another expletive 'How dare you keep on lying?
Alexey Sergeitch used to drive her himself, the ends of the reins crushed up in his fists. 'Well, plunderer, what have you to say? Have you stacked a great deal in the barn? he would ask with a smile, looking straight into the plunderer's eyes. 'All, by your good favour, please your honour, Antip would respond cheerfully.
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