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Updated: June 19, 2025
It would be difficult to describe the animation and high spirits which distinguished the prince for the rest of the evening. He was so happy that "it made one feel happy to look at him," as Aglaya's sisters expressed it afterwards. He talked, and told stories just as he had done once before, and never since, namely on the very first morning of his acquaintance with the Epanchins, six months ago.
But the Epanchins, one and all, believed that Muishkin, in his simplicity of mind, was quite incapable of realizing that they could be feeling any anxiety on his account, and for this reason they all looked at him with dread and uneasiness. In point of fact, he did attach marvellously little importance to the approaching event. He was occupied with altogether different thoughts.
The prince knew that if he called at the Epanchins' now he would only find the general, and that the latter might probably carry him straight off to Pavlofsk with him; whereas there was one visit he was most anxious to make without delay.
How or why it came about that everyone at the Epanchins' became imbued with one conviction that something very important had happened to Aglaya, and that her fate was in process of settlement it would be very difficult to explain.
He had fallen seriously ill, and his illness precluded his appearance in society, and even at business, for over a month. As soon as he had recovered, however, he threw up his situation in the public company under General Epanchin's direction, for some unknown reason, and the post was given to another. He never went near the Epanchins' house at all, and was exceedingly irritable and depressed.
There's something in the air, I feel there's something nasty in the air, like a bat, and I'm by no means comfortable." And it was not until the third day that the formal reconciliation between the prince and the Epanchins took place, as said before. IT was seven in the evening, and the prince was just preparing to go out for a walk in the park, when suddenly Mrs. Epanchin appeared on the terrace.
All this has been such a blow to me that I have not managed to call in at the Epanchins'. Tomorrow I shall not see them either, because I shall be in town. I may not be here for three days or more; in a word, my affairs are a little out of gear.
The prince made up his mind that he would make a point of going there "as usual," tonight, and looked feverishly at his watch. Vera came in three minutes after the Epanchins had left. "Lef Nicolaievitch," she said, "Aglaya Ivanovna has just given me a message for you." The prince trembled. "Is it a note?" "No, a verbal message; she had hardly time even for that.
Prince S. was there; and they all intended to go out to hear the band very soon. Colia arrived presently and joined the circle. "So he is received as usual, after all," thought the prince. The Epanchins' country-house was a charming building, built after the model of a Swiss chalet, and covered with creepers.
He knew of all the current rumours, in fact, he had probably contributed to them himself. The prince was delighted to see him, and immediately began to speak of the Epanchins; which simple and straightforward opening quite took Evgenie's fancy, so that he melted at once, and plunged in medias res without ceremony. The prince did not know, up to this, that the Epanchins had left the place.
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