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Updated: May 9, 2025
Poor Lizabetha Prokofievna was most anxious to get home, and, according to Evgenie's account, she criticized everything foreign with much hostility. "They can't bake bread anywhere, decently; and they all freeze in their houses, during winter, like a lot of mice in a cellar.
Very probably he passed disturbed nights, and was afflicted with bad dreams; but, during the daytime, among his fellow-men, he seemed as kind as ever, and even contented; only a little thoughtful when alone. The wedding was hurried on. The day was fixed for exactly a week after Evgenie's visit to the prince.
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.
He was puzzled, however, by the young man's plain clothes, for he had always heard of Evgenie Pavlovitch as a military man. An ironical smile played on Evgenie's lips all the while the recitation was proceeding, which showed that he, too, was probably in the secret of the 'poor knight' joke. But it had become quite a different matter with Aglaya.
Look at the slyness of her observation about Evgenie's uniform! I mean, her remark that he had retired just in time! There's a venomous hint for you, if you like! No, no! there's no insanity there!
This gentleman was a confidant of Evgenie's, and had doubtless heard of the carriage episode. Nastasia turned to him. Her eyes flashed; she rushed up to a young man standing near, whom she did not know in the least, but who happened to have in his hand a thin cane. Seizing this from him, she brought it with all her force across the face of her insulter.
You spoke just now of Aglaya's face at the moment when she ran away. Oh, my God! I remember it! Come along, come along quick!" He pulled at Evgenie's coat-sleeve nervously and excitedly, and rose from his chair. "Where to?" "Come to Aglaya quick, quick!" "But I told you she is not at Pavlofsk. And what would be the use if she were?"
The general finished by informing him that Evgenie's uncle was head of one of the civil service departments, and rich, very rich, and a gourmand. "And, well, Heaven preserve him, of course but Evgenie gets his money, don't you see? But, for all this, I'm uncomfortable, I don't know why.
The woman has no common sense; but she is not only not insane, she is artful to a degree. Her outburst of this evening about Evgenie's uncle proves that conclusively. It was VILLAINOUS, simply jesuitical, and it was all for some special purpose." "What about Evgenie's uncle?" "My goodness, Lef Nicolaievitch, why, you can't have heard a single word I said!
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