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She simply worshipped Solomin and put her husband only second to him. She did not, however, care for the factory life. "It's neither town nor country here. I wouldn't stop an hour if it were not for Vassily Fedotitch!" Mariana listened to her attentively, while Nejdanov, sitting a little to one side, watched her and wondered at her interest.
"Does it lock all right?" "Yes," Mariana whispered. Solomin turned to her. She did not raise her eyes. "Then there is no need to bother about the Sipiagins," he continued gaily, "is there?" Solomin was about to go out. "Vassily Fedotitch..." "Yes..." "Why is it you are so talkative with me when you are usually so silent? You can't imagine what pleasure it gives me." "Why?"
"Do you know, Mariana... excuse the coarse expression... but, to my mind, combing the scurfy head of a gutter child is a sacrifice; a great sacrifice of which not many people are capable." "I would not shirk that, Vassily Fedotitch." "I know you would not. You are capable of doing that and will do it, until something else turns up. "But for that sort of thing I must learn of Tatiana!"
They respected him as a superior, treated him as one of themselves, and considered him to be very learned. "Whatever Vassily Fedotitch says," they declared, "is sacred! Because he has learned everything there is to be learned, and there isn't an Englishman who can get around 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.
"Don't bother, miss, we are used to it. Vassily Fedotitch told me to. If you want anything please let us know. We shall be delighted to do anything we can." "Please don't call me miss, Tatiana. I am dressed like a lady, but I am... I am quite " Tatiana's penetrating glance disconcerted Mariana; she ceased. "And what are you then?" Tatiana asked in her steady voice.
He gave them all the details of the suicide, regaled them with Swiss cheese and Madeira, but as for the whereabouts of Vassily Fedotitch and the young lady, he knew nothing of that.
Valentina Mihailovna, with a most charming smile, handed Solomin a cup of coffee; he drank it and was already looking round for his hat when Sipiagin took him gently by the arm and led him into his study. There he first gave him an excellent cigar and then made him a proposal to enter his factory on the most advantageous terms. "You will be absolute master there, Vassily Fedotitch, I assure you!"
In almost all the lodgings which we entered, with the landlord, Ivan Fedotitch, he said to us: "Here you need not write down the lodger's card yourself; there is a man here who can do it, if he only happens not to be intoxicated to-day." And Ivan Fedotitch called by name and patronymic this man, who was always one of those persons who had fallen from a lofty position.
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.
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