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Updated: May 22, 2025
And one of them was hungry, And many and many a year Had he roamed, forever asking For goat's meat far and near." PELAGÉYA EGÓROVNA. Arinushka, bring some refreshments for the mummers. ARÍNA brings them something to drink; they drink and bow. TRAINER. Now, then, amuse the honorable company. They go out; the OLD MAN plays the guitar; the other mummers dance; all watch them.
ARÍNA comes in with a candle; LYUBÓV GORDÉYEVNA goes to meet her. ARÍNA, LYUBÓV GORDÉYEVNA, and afterwards EGÓRUSHKA ARÍNA. Well, you! You frightened me enough! What are you doing here? Your mother is looking for you there, and here you are! Why are you wandering about in the dark! Oh, you modest maiden! EGÓRUSHKA. Oh! how are you, Arína, my dear? ARÍNA. What are you so happy about, silly?
ARÍNA. Oh, wait, I can't attend to you now! My darling child! Girls, my dearies! "Thou art my own, my mother, Who grievest day by day, And at night to God dost pray. Thou who art so downcast, Look but once on her here, Thy daughter who was so dear For the last time the last." LYUBÓV GORDÉYEVNA. For the last time.
EGÓRUSHKA. Why shouldn't I be happy? It's such fun! ARÍNA. And maybe the mummers are coming; the young people wanted to dress up. EGÓRUSHKA. Oh, I shall die! Oh, Lord, I shall die! ARÍNA. What's the matter with you, you scamp? EGÓRUSHKA. Oh, I shall die of laughing! Oh, granny, I've got such giggles! ARÍNA. Dress up yourself. EGÓRUSHKA. I will, I will! Oh, Lord! Oh, Oh, Oh.
Vassily Ivanitch was more fussy than ever; he was obviously trying to put a good face on it, talked loudly, and stamped with his feet, but his face looked haggard, and his eyes were continually avoiding his son. Arina Vlasyevna was crying quietly; she was utterly crushed, and could not have controlled herself at all if her husband had not spent two whole hours early in the morning exhorting her.
"Where does the great joy come in?" said Arina Prohorovna good-humouredly, bustling about, clearing up, and working like a convict. "The mysterious coming of a new creature, a great and inexplicable mystery; and what a pity it is, Arina Prohorovna, that you don't understand it." Shatov spoke in an incoherent, stupefied and ecstatic way.
Fenitchka listened to all he had to say, and then was going. 'Kiss the master's hand, silly girl, said Arina. Nikolai Petrovitch did not give her his hand, and in confusion himself kissed her bent head on the parting of her hair. Fenitchka's eye was soon well again, but the impression she had made on Nikolai Petrovitch did not pass away so quickly.
On returning home overwhelmed and exhausted, Virginsky had not ventured to tell her of the decision that had been taken, yet he could not refrain from telling her half that is, all that Verhovensky had told them of the certainty of Shatov's intention to betray them; but he added at the same time that he did not quite believe it. Arina Prohorovna was terribly alarmed.
He ended, of course, by confessing it all to Arina Prohorovna but to no one else in the house. She left him on his bed, sternly impressing upon him that "if he must blubber he must do it in his pillow so as not to be overheard, and that he would be a fool if he showed any traces of it next day."
But Arina had not come so far to be, stopped so easily: she tried to push between them, but they opposed her; she persisted, and one of them pushed her roughly back. The child fell, struck her head against a seat, and got up bleeding and crying, "You are very proud for a slave. Is it because you belong to the great lady who burnt the Red House?"
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