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Updated: May 12, 2025
After weeping for ten minutes Fustov got up, lay down on the sofa, turned his face to the wall, and remained motionless. I waited a little, but seeing that he did not stir, and made no answer to my questions, I made up my mind to leave him. I am perhaps doing him injustice, but I almost believe he was asleep.
Wouldn't you like to know, eh? Viktor drew us a little aside, and pulling out of his trouser-pocket a whole bundle of the red and blue notes then in use waved them in the air. Fustov was surprised. 'Has your governor been so liberal? Viktor chuckled. 'He liberal! You just try it on!... This morning, relying on your intercession, I asked him for cash.
'I can't go there, he said. 'That's what I came to you for, to ask you to go... for me... I can't... I can't.... Fustov suddenly sat down to the table, hid his face in both hands, and sobbed bitterly. 'Alas, alas! he kept repeating through his tears; 'alas, poor girl... poor girl... I loved... I loved her... alas!
Not enough for tobacco. And then he goes on about my not making debts! I should like to put him in my place, and then we should see! It's no use his whining about hard times, there's no taking me in. No fear! He's made a snug little pile! Fustov looked dubiously at Victor. 'If you like, he began, 'I'll speak to your father. Or, if you like... meanwhile... a trifling sum.... 'Oh, no!
'At midnight! I thought.... 'Then she was still alive yesterday when I fancied I saw her in the window, when I entreated him to hasten to her.... 'She was still alive yesterday, when you wanted to send me to Ivan Demianitch's, said Fustov, as though guessing my thought. 'How little he knew her! I thought again. 'How little we both knew her!
You're drunk, said Fustov, taking his overcoat from the wall. 'He's swindled some fool of his money, and now he's telling all sorts of lies! Viktor continued reclining on the sofa, and merely swung his legs, which were hanging over its arm. 'Swindled! Why did you drink the wine, then? It was paid for with the money I won, you know. As for lies, I've no need for lying.
I'd have all your liberals locked up in custody! and turning at last his full face and whole body towards Fustov, he brought out in a half-plaintive, half-ironical voice: 'I wanted to ask you something, Alexander Daviditch.... Couldn't you talk my governor round somehow?... You play duets with him, you know.... Here he gives me five miserable blue notes a month.... What's the use of that!
'You must for ever be joking, Ivan Demianitch, the latter responded with displeasure, while Fustov, laughing and gracefully swaying to and fro, looked at the husband and wife. 'And why not be joking, mein Mutterchen? retorted Ivan Demianitch. 'Life's given us for use, and still more for beauty, as some celebrated poet has observed. Kolka, wipe your nose, little savage!
'H'm!... And that Viktor, who didn't come in this evening, is his stepson too? 'No... he's his real son. But, as you know, I don't enter into other people's affairs, and I don't like asking questions. I'm not inquisitive. I bit my tongue. Fustov still pushed on ahead. As we got near home, I overtook him and peeped into his face. 'Oh! I queried, 'is Susanna really so musical? Fustov frowned.
He barely glanced at me over his shoulder, shook his collar up, and did not nod to me, for which I mentally thanked him. I went back to Fustov. I found my friend sitting in a corner of his room with downcast head and arms folded across his breast.
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