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"Ah! you know yourself that it is so!" replied Sanine, with a smile. "But it won't do to pay any attention to such childish nonsense. Life's really too short." "Look here," shouted Goschienko, purple with rage, "You take far too much upon yourself!" "Not more than you do." "How's that?" "Think it out for yourself," said Sanine.
He shook hands with the two workmen, who hastily rose from their seats. It was embarrassing to meet the doctor as a fellow-comrade, when at the hospital he was wont to treat them as his inferiors. Goschienko, looking rather annoyed, then began.
"If you judge like that," shouted Yourii, his eyes flashing, for he was anxious not to yield in the presence of Sina, though she could only hear his voice, "then we must go back to the origin of all ideas...." "What ought we, then, in your opinion to read?" said the hostile Goschienko. "What you ought to read? Why, Confucius, the Gospels, Ecclesiastes ..."
He looked about him as a young peasant might do when first coming to a town. Pushing past them, Soloveitchik began solemnly, "Gentlemen, these are " "Oh! that'll do!" cried Goschienko, interrupting him, as usual. "Good evening, comrades." "Pistzoff and Koudriavji," said the Polytechnic student.
"I expect that you have a most wonderful conception of life, and have read heaps of books. One can see that directly. Yet you lose your temper because everybody doesn't agree with you; and, what is more, you behave rudely to Soloveitchik, who has certainly never done you any harm." Goschienko was silent, looking utterly amazed, as if Sanine had said something most extraordinary.
"Now, Goschienko, as the initiator of this meeting, it is for you to make the opening speech," said the pale-faced Dubova, and from the expression in her eyes it was hard to say if she were in earnest, or only laughing at the student. "Ladies and gentlemen," began Goschienko, raising his voice, "everybody knows why we have met here to-night, and so we can dispense with any introductory speech."
"The Psalms and the Apocrypha," was the Polytechnic student's mocking interruption. Goschienko laughed maliciously, oblivious of the fact himself had never read one of these works. "Of what good would that be?" asked Schafroff in a tone of disappointment. "It's like they do in church!" tittered Pistzoff. Yourii's face flushed. "I am not joking. If you wish to be logical, then ..."
"Aha!" drawled Ivanoff, as he scratched the back of his head. "But with that we shall deal later on. At the commencement we shall not set ourselves to solve such great " "Or small ..." prompted Dubova. "Problems," continued Goschienko, affecting not to hear. "We shall begin by making out a programme of such works as we intend to read, and I propose to devote the present evening to this purpose."
"Probably, the police," remarked Goschienko with feigned indifference. "I am sure that you would not mind if it were the police," cried Dubova. Sanine looked at her intelligent eyes, and the plait of fair hair falling over her shoulder, which almost made her face attractive. "A smart girl, that!" he thought.
To me it is evident that every person here to-night is endeavouring to force the others to accept his views, being himself mortally afraid lest others should persuade him to think as they do. Well, to be quite frank, that is boring." "One moment! Allow me!" exclaimed Goschienko. "Oh I that will do!" said Sanine, with a gesture of annoyance.
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