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Gedeonovsky's only reply was a forced smile. For a short time he remained silent, but presently he said, "May I be allowed to be so inquisitive as to ask for whom this pretty scarf is intended?" Marfa Timofeevna looked up at him quickly. "For whom is it intended?" she said.
At this moment the page announced Gedeonovsky's arrival, and the old gossip came in smiling, and bowing profoundly. Maria Dmitrievna introduced him to her visitor. At first he was somewhat abashed, but Varvara Pavlovna behaved to him with such coquettish respectfulness that his ears soon began to tingle, and amiable speeches and gossiping stories began to flow uninterruptedly from his lips.
A slight cloud of melancholy flitted over all the young faces. "But Matross is alive," said Lenotchka suddenly. "And Gedeonovsky," added her brother. At Gedeonovsky's name a merry laugh broke out at once.
There was something, he felt, in Liza's mind, which he could not understand. On another occasion, as Lavretsky was sitting in the drawing-room, listening to the insinuating tones of Gedeonovsky's wearisome verbiage, he suddenly turned round, he knew not why, and caught the deep, attentive, inquiring look of Liza's eyes. That enigmatical look was directed towards him.
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