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'Renditch promised to arrange everything for us within a week, he said, 'we can rely on him, I think.... Did you hear, Elena, he added with sudden animation, 'they say the poor Dalmatian fishermen have sacrificed their dredging weights you know the leads they weigh their nets with for letting them down to the bottom to make bullets!
'Go on, go on, continued Shubin, 'I only shouted, I won't detain you and you'd better slip straight into the garden you'll find Elena there, I fancy she's waiting for you... she's waiting for some one anyway.... Do you understand the force of those words: she is waiting! And do you know, my dear boy, an astonishing circumstance?
'Oh yes, when they can't stay behind, and I cannot stay here? 'Elena, my angel!.. but think, I have, perhaps, to leave Moscow in a fortnight. I can't think of university lectures, or finishing my work. 'What! interrupted Elena, 'you have to go soon? If you like, I will stop at once this minute with you for ever, and not go home, shall I? Shall we go at once?
"They carry knives about with them, and dig underground passages in Navii's playground. He himself is clean-shaven like a German, and he's imported these foreign earth-diggers." "I like that red-haired instructress, Nadezhda Vestchezerova," said Elena. She looked searchingly at her sister. "Yes, she's very sincere," answered Elisaveta. "A fine girl."
'He will swim out, he answered with contemptuous and unsympathetic indifference. 'Let us go on, he added, taking Anna Vassilyevna by the arm. 'Come, Uvar Ivanovitch, Elena Nikolaevna. 'A a o o' was heard at that instant, the plaint of the hapless German who had managed to get hold of the rushes on the bank. They all followed Insarov, and had to pass close by the party.
We're used to it, and it's suitable." And so Elena had to give herself up to being waited upon as tenderly by the old servants, as she had been during their time of happiness at the great house. Boris had no time for brooding, for he was working hard at his lessons with the village Priest; and as to little Daria, she had quickly adapted herself to the new surroundings.
Nothing can save it! The water rises! rises! and any minute it may burst through! The Saints have mercy! All our things will be lost; but it is the will of God we cannot fight against it." And Volodia crossed himself devoutly with Russian fatalism. "But mamma! what will happen to her?" cried Elena passionately. "Can nothing be done?"
"I demand one wedding present," she said. "The greenhide reata. I wish it as a memento of my mother." Doña Jacoba, without the quiver of a muscle, walked into her husband's room and returned with the reata and handed it to her. Then Elena turned her back upon her father's house and walked down the road through the willows.
Bersenyev began to talk to Anna Vassilyevna, and Elena went off to her own room, dropped on her knees and fell to praying, to thanking God. Light, shining tears trickled down her cheeks. Suddenly she was conscious of intense weariness, laid her head down on the pillow, whispered 'poor Andrei Petrovitch! and at once fell asleep with wet eheeks and eyelashes.
One was obstinate through everything. He did not want to give back the money. 'What? Was the dispute over money? 'Yes; and a small sum of money too. What did you suppose? 'And you travelled over fifty miles for such trifling matters? Wasted three days? 'They are not trifling matters, Elena Nikolaevna, when my countrymen are involved. It would be wicked to refuse in such cases.
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