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He spoke like a merchant, but very freely and with a sort of careless self-confidence and went on looking at her with the same intent, impudent stare.... All at once he moved a little closer to her and without the slightest change of countenance said to her: "Avdotya Arefyevna, there's no one like you in the world; I am ready to die for you." Avdotya laughed aloud. "What is it?" asked Akim.
You've ruined me, you monster!" And she broke into violent sobbing. "Don't excite yourself, Avdotya Arefyevna," said Naum. "I'll tell you one thing: charity begins at home, and that's what the pike is in the sea for, to keep the carp from going to sleep." "Where are we to go now. What's to become of us?" Avdotya faltered, weeping. "That I can't say."
Am I to say to him, 'My wife took it from under the floor and brought it to you'? 'Your wife is telling lies, he will say. Hasn't there been scandal enough for you, Arefyevna? You'd better say nothing, I tell you, say nothing." "I am guilty, Semyonitch, I am guilty," Avdotya, terrified, whispered again. "That's not what matters," said Akim, after a pause. "What are we going to do?
"How could I! But, Akim Semyonitch," went on Avdotya, who had raised her head but let it sink to the earth again, "you don't know, I ... kill me, Akim Semyonitch, kill me here on the spot." "Why should I kill you, Arefyevna?" said Akim dejectedly, "you've been your own ruin. What's the use?"
"But I'll cut your throat, you villain, I'll cut your throat." "No, you won't do that, Avdotya Arefyevna; what's the use of talking like that? But I see I had better leave you for a time, for you are very much upset.... I'll say good-bye, but I shall be back to-morrow for certain.
Here's God and here's the door ... do you understand? Or there will be trouble." Naum took a step forward. "Good gracious, don't fight, my dears," faltered Avdotya, who till then had sat motionless at the table. Naum glanced at her. "Don't be uneasy, Avdotya Arefyevna, why should we fight? Fie, brother, what a hullabaloo you are making!" he went on, addressing Akim. "Yes, really.
"You are quite right there. Hullo, I believe your husband has gone off with my horse," he added, hearing the rumble of the wheels. "He is a smart fellow!" "But it's robbery!" wailed Avdotya. "Why, it's our money, my husband's money and the inn is ours...." "No, Avdotya Arefyevna," Naum interrupted her, "the inn was not yours. What's the use of saying that?
Dunyasha was by now over five and twenty; everyone addressed her as Avdotya Arefyevna. She never became a real housewife, however but she grew fond of her house, looked after the stores and superintended the woman who worked in the house.
"You've gone clean off your head, old man," he said with a jeer. "Avdotya Arefyevna, what's wrong with him?" "I tell you," shouted Akim in a cracked voice, "go away, do you hear? ... You have nothing to do with Avdotya Arefyevna ... I tell you, do you hear, get out!" "What's that you are saying to me?" Naum asked significantly. "Go out of the house, that's what I am telling to you.
I don't want to stay here, just because I don't want them to point the finger at me do you understand? I am going to pray for my sins, Arefyevna, that's what I am going to do." "What sins have you, Semyonitch?" Avdotya pronounced timidly. "Of them I know best myself, wife." "But are you leaving me all alone, Semyonitch? How can I live without a husband?" "Leaving you alone?
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