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Epanchin, "and a good thing too, for Evgenie Pavlovitch is coming down and there will be no one at home to receive him." Of course, after this, Aglaya went with the rest. In fact, she had never had the slightest intention of doing otherwise. Prince S., who was in the house, was requested to escort the ladies. He had been much interested when he first heard of the prince from the Epanchins.
"You are inclined to go a little too far, my good boy, with your guesses," said Mrs. Epanchin, with some show of annoyance. "But it's not I alone," cried Colia. "They all talked about it, and they do still.
"Why are you so unhappy, mother?" asked Adelaida, who alone of all the company seemed to have preserved her good temper and spirits up to now. "In the first place, because of my carefully brought-up daughters," said Mrs. Epanchin, cuttingly; "and as that is the best reason I can give you we need not bother about any other at present. Enough of words, now!
The most disturbing feature was the hedgehog. What was the symbolic signification of a hedgehog? What did they understand by it? What underlay it? Was it a cryptic message? Poor General Epanchin "put his foot in it" by answering the above questions in his own way. He said there was no cryptic message at all.
"That's what comes of telling the truth for once in one's life!" said Lebedeff. "It reduced him to tears." "Come, come! the less YOU say about it the better to judge from all I have heard about you!" replied Mrs. Epanchin.
The Epanchin family had at last made up their minds to spend the summer abroad, all except the general, who could not waste time in "travelling for enjoyment," of course. This arrangement was brought about by the persistence of the girls, who insisted that they were never allowed to go abroad because their parents were too anxious to marry them off.
General Epanchin had judged it better to say nothing about it, though, of course, she was well aware of the fact.
And as to the third of our trio, Epanchin, of course after that little affair with the poodle in the railway carriage, it was all UP between us." "Poodle? What was that? And in a railway carriage? Dear me," said Nastasia, thoughtfully, as though trying to recall something to mind.
A strange rumour began to circulate, meanwhile; no less than that the respectable and highly respected General Epanchin was himself so fascinated by Nastasia Philipovna that his feeling for her amounted almost to passion. What he thought to gain by Gania's marriage to the girl it was difficult to imagine.
He was particularly anxious that this one day should be passed especially the evening without unpleasantness between himself and his family; and just at the right moment the prince turned up "as though Heaven had sent him on purpose," said the general to himself, as he left the study to seek out the wife of his bosom. Mrs. General Epanchin was a proud woman by nature.
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