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Katya let her two hands drop together with the basket on to her lap, and with bent head she stared a long while after Arkady. Gradually a crimson flush came faintly out upon her cheeks; but her lips did not smile and her dark eyes had a look of perplexity and some other, as yet undefined, feeling.
'Ah, our father, our gracious benefactor! he began in a sing-song voice, and with a face of such deep feeling that it seemed every minute as if he would burst into tears; 'at last you have graciously deigned to come to us ... your hand, your honour's hand, he added, his lips protruded in anticipation. Arkady Pavlitch gratified his desire.
'For shame, Yevgeny.... Let bygones be bygones. Well, I'm ready to acknowledge before this gentleman I had that passion in my youth; and I have paid for it too! How hot it is, though! Let me sit down with you. I shan't be in your way, I hope? 'Oh, not at all, answered Arkady. Vassily Ivanovitch lowered himself, sighing, into the hay.
This morning I was sitting reading Pushkin.... I remember, it happened to be The Gipsies ... all of a sudden Arkady came up to me, and, without speaking, with such a kindly compassion on his face, as gently as if I were a baby, took the book away from me, and laid another before me a German book ... smiled, and went away, carrying Pushkin off with him. 'Upon my word! What book did he give you?
'I'll say nothing of myself; but that would be discourteous to the last degree to Anna Sergyevna, who will certainly wish to see you. 'Oh, you're mistaken there. 'On the contrary, I am certain I'm right, retorted Arkady. 'And what are you pretending for? If it comes to that, haven't you come here on her account yourself? 'That may be so, but you're mistaken any way. But Arkady was right.
He was walking with Arkady in the garden, and explaining to him why some of the trees, especially the oaks, had not done well. 'You ought to have planted silver poplars here by preference, and spruce firs, and perhaps limes, giving them some loam. The arbour there has done well, he added, 'because it's acacia and lilac; they're accommodating good fellows, those trees, they don't want much care.
Arkady had brought back with him his great friend, Bazaroff, a tall man, long and lean, with a broad forehead, a nose flat at the base and sharper at the end, large greenish eyes, and drooping whiskers of a sandy colour a face which was lighted up by a tranquil smile and showed self-confidence and intelligence.
'He will be famous! repeated the old man, and he sank into a reverie. 'Arina Vlasyevna sent me to call you in to tea, announced Anfisushka, coming by with an immense dish of ripe raspberries. Vassily Ivanovitch started. 'And will there be cooled cream for the raspberries? 'Yes. 'Cold now, mind! Don't stand on ceremony, Arkady Nikolaitch; take some more. How is it Yevgeny doesn't come?
'Why did you sell it? 'The money was needed; besides, that land is to go to the peasants. 'Who don't pay you their rent? 'That's their affair; besides, they will pay it some day. 'I am sorry about the forest, observed Arkady, and he began to look about him. The country through which they were driving could not be called picturesque.
'Turn to the left, shouted Arkady. The coach rolled away in the direction of Nikolskoe. But having resolved on the folly, the friends were even more obstinately silent than before, and seemed positively ill-humoured. Directly the steward met them on the steps of Madame Odintsov's house, the friends could perceive that they had acted injudiciously in giving way so suddenly to a passing impulse.
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