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It so happened that, acting upon some unspoken yet understood agreement, every one tried to direct Piotr's attention to Elena. Piotr submitted to this general influence, and was affectionate and gentle with Elena.
It is a sin to sing where the dead are lying: and at that instant, in that room, the past of which he had spoken was dying, the past of the people met together in it. It was dying to be born again in a new life doubtless still it was death. 'Come, Elena, began Insarov, turning to his wife, 'I think everything is done? Everything paid, and everything packed.
Elena, all in tears, had already taken her seat in the sledge; Insarov had carefully wrapped her feet up in a rug; Shubin, Bersenyev, the landlord, his wife, the little daughter, with the inevitable kerchief on her head, the doorkeeper, a workman in a striped bedgown, were all standing on the steps, when suddenly a splendid sledge, harnessed with spirited horses, flew into the courtyard, and from the sledge, shaking the snow off the collar of his cloak, leapt Nikolai Artemyevitch.
Gerardo, as is the wont of gallants, was paying his addresses to a certain lady; and nearly every day he had to cross the Grand Canal in his gondola, and to pass beneath the house of Elena on his way to visit his Dulcinea; for this lady lived some distance up a little canal on which the western side of Messer Pietro's palace looked.
"No one in all Russia will look so grand in court dress as our Conchita," said Elena loyally. "But I doubt if it is the dress and the state she thinks of losing to-day. She will not talk even to me of him Ay yi! she grows more reserved every day, our Concha! except to say she will wed him when he returns, and that I know, for did not I witness the betrothal?
He looked at the sisters attentively. They were silent. "I've got together all sorts of information here and elsewhere," he went on. "Curious things they tell about him, very curious indeed. And where did he get his money? In general there are many suspicious circumstances about his life." "Suspicious for whom?" asked Elena. "And what affair is it of ours?"
The hero of the novel, and the man who captures the proud heart of Elena, is a foreigner a Bulgarian, who has only one idea, the liberation of his country. He is purposely drawn in sharp contrast to the cultivated charming Russian gentlemen with whom he talks. Indeed, he rather dislikes talk, an unusual trait in a professional reformer.
'A Schellingist means a follower of Schelling, a German philosopher; and what the philosophy of Schelling consists in 'Andrei Petrovitch! cried Shubin suddenly, 'for mercy's sake! Surely you don't mean to give Elena Nikolaevna a lecture on Schelling? Have pity on her! 'Not a lecture at all, murmured Bersenyev, turning crimson. 'I meant 'And why not a lecture? put in Elena.
At ten years old Elena made friends with a little beggar-girl, Katya, and used to go secretly to meet her in the garden, took her nice things to eat, and presented her with handkerchiefs and pennies; playthings Katya would not take.
Piotr was displeased because Elisaveta paid no attention to him and appeared to be absorbed in Trirodov and in what he was saying; and it vexed him because Elena also now and then let her softened gaze rest upon Trirodov. He felt he wanted to say provoking things to Trirodov.
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