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He suddenly shook his head despairingly, his breast heaved with a painful effort, and he fell back again. 'We can't let him lie here and die, though, cried Ardalion Mihalitch; 'lads, give us the mat from the cart, and carry him to the hospital. Two men ran to the cart.
'How is it, Ardalion Mihalitch, I began, 'that they didn't fell these trees the very next year? You see they won't give for them now a tenth of what they would have done before. He merely shrugged his shoulders. 'You should have asked my aunt that; the timber merchants came, offered money down, pressed the matter, in fact. 'Mein Gott! mein Gott! Von der Kock cried at every step.
The German bowed, got off his horse, pulled a book out of his pocket a novel of Johanna Schopenhauer's, I fancy and sat down under a bush; Arhip remained in the sun without stirring a muscle for an hour. We beat about among the bushes, but did not come on a single covey. Ardalion Mihalitch announced his intention of going on to the wood.
We were getting near the place where they were cutting down the trees, when suddenly a shout and hurried talk was heard, following on the crash of a falling tree, and a few instants after a young peasant, pale and dishevelled, dashed out of the thicket towards us. 'What is it? where are you running? Ardalion Mihalitch asked him. He stopped at once. 'Ah, Ardalion Mihalitch, sir, an accident!
Ardalion procured me a coach and groom, both alike shabby and loose in the joints; but the groom wore livery, the carriage was adorned with an heraldic crest.
Nastasia Philipovna seemed delighted at the appearance of this latest arrival, of whom she had of course heard a good deal by report. "I have heard that my son " began Ardalion Alexandrovitch. "Your son, indeed! A nice papa you are! YOU might have come to see me anyhow, without compromising anyone. Do you hide yourself, or does your son hide you?"
He paused, and the huge clock on the wall, with a lilac rose on its white face, seemed in its monotonous, sleepy tick, to repeat his words: 'Ve-ry! ve-ry! it ticked. Every one sits like a pigeon on its perch. And so it comes to pass that visitors have simply nowhere to go. Ardalion stole a sidelong glance at me.
Nina Alexandrovna is the wife of General Ardalion Alexandrovitch, my old brother in arms, with whom, I regret to say, on account of certain circumstances, I am no longer acquainted. I give you all this information, prince, in order to make it clear to you that I am personally recommending you to this family, and that in so doing, I am more or less taking upon myself to answer for you.
He rose and walked quietly to the door, so meekly that Mrs. Epanchin was instantly sorry for him. "Ardalion Alexandrovitch," she cried after him, "wait a moment, we are all sinners! When you feel that your conscience reproaches you a little less, come over to me and we'll have a talk about the past! I dare say I am fifty times more of a sinner than you are!
The German noted the page, got up, put the book in his pocket, and with some difficulty mounted his bob-tailed, broken-winded mare, who neighed and kicked at the slightest touch; Arhip shook himself, gave a tug at both reins at once, swung his legs, and at last succeeded in starting his torpid and dejected nag. We set off. I had been familiar with Ardalion Mihalitch's wood from my childhood.
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