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Solomin accepted the cigar and declined the offer about the factory. He stuck to his refusal, however much Sipiagin insisted. "Please don't say 'no' at once, my dear Vassily Fedotitch! Say, at least, that you'll think it over until tomorrow!" "It would make no difference. I wouldn't accept your proposal." "Do think it over till tomorrow, Vassily Fedotitch! It won't cost you anything."
"Vassily Fedotitch, don't laugh, please," Mariana implored, turning as red as a poppy. "There's a nice couple!" Tatiana exclaimed, clapping her hands. "But you, my dear, don't be angry, you look well enough, but beside my little dove you're nowhere." "And, really, she is charming," Nejdanov thought; "oh, how I love her!" "Look now," Tatiana continued, "she insisted on changing rings with me.
Of course he doesn't understand anything and does it only for show to set an example so to speak. Vassily Fedotitch treats him like a child. The master wanted to make some unpleasantness, but Vassily Fedotitch soon shut him up. 'I'll throw it up this minute, he said, so he soon began to sing small. They are having dinner now. The master brought someone with him.
I was convinced of all this, but out of false shame at abandoning what I had once undertaken, because of my self-delusion as a benefactor, I went on with this matter for a tolerably long time, and would have gone on with it until it came to nothing of itself, so that it was with the greatest difficulty that, with the help of Ivan Fedotitch, I got rid, after a fashion, as well as I could, in the tavern of the Rzhanoff house, of the thirty-seven rubles which I did not regard as belonging to me.
The tavern was full; gayly- dressed, intoxicated girls were flitting in and out; all the tables were occupied; there were already a great many drunken people, and in the small room the harmonium was being played, and two persons were dancing. Out of respect to me, Ivan Fedotitch ordered that the dance should be stopped, and seated himself with me at a vacant table.
Mariana held out both her hands to him quickly. "How can we thank you enough, Vassily Fedotitch?" She looked at him with emotion. Solomin stroked one of her hands gently. "I should say it's not worth thanking for, but that wouldn't be true. I had better say that your thanks give me the greatest of pleasure. So we are quits. Good morning. Come along, Pavel." Mariana and Nejdanov were left alone.
I inquired for the enumerators. "Vanya!" shouted a small man, dressed in German fashion, who was engaged in placing something in a cupboard behind the counter; this was the landlord of the tavern, a Kaluga peasant, Ivan Fedotitch, who hired one-half of the Zimins' houses and sublet them to lodgers. The waiter, a thin, hooked-nosed young fellow of eighteen, with a yellow complexion, hastened up.
There was no one else there to give any to. Of course many began to beg of me. But as I had not known them at first, so I did not know them now, and I made up my mind to take counsel with Ivan Fedotitch, the landlord of the tavern, as to the persons upon whom it would be proper to bestow the remaining thirty-two rubies. It was the first day of the carnival.
"I won't smoke any more... It's quite easy to give that up. Women of the people don't smoke, so I suppose I ought not to." "That's quite true, Mariana Vikentievna. Our men indulge in it, but not the women. And here's Vassily Fedotitch coming to see you. Those are his steps. You ask him. He'll arrange everything for you in the best possible way." Solomin's voice was heard at the door.
He was most effusive in his assurances that Vassily Fedotitch was never away for long at a time on account of his work, that he was sure to be back either today or tomorrow, and that he would let them know as soon as he arrived. They might depend on him! So the officers went away no wiser than they had come, leaving a guard in charge of the body and promising to send a coroner.
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