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"It's a pity!" said Foma, with tears in his voice. "Yes. So that's the kind of a fellow you are," said Ignat. Then, after a moment's silence, he filled a wineglass with vodka, emptied it, and said sternly, in a slightly reprimanding tone: "There is no reason why you should pity him. He brawled at random, and therefore got what he deserved.
Sophya Pavlovna Medinskaya, the wealthy architect's wife, who was well known in the city for her tireless efforts in the line of arranging various charitable projects, persuaded Ignat to endow seventy-five thousand roubles for the erection of a lodging-house in the city and of a public library with a reading-room.
As for his father and Mayakin, who were watching him vigilantly, this uncertainty of Foma's character inspired them with serious apprehensions. "I cannot understand him!" Ignat would say with contrite heart. "He does not lead a dissipated life, he does not seem to run after the women, treats me and you with respect, listens to everything he is more like a pretty girl than a fellow!
"Ignat!" he called to the coachman, who, with his sleeves tucked up, was washing the carriage wheels, "saddle me..." "Which, sir?" "Well, let it be Kolpik." "Yes, sir." While they were saddling his horse, Levin again called up the bailiff, who was hanging about in sight, to make it up with him, and began talking to him about the spring operations before them, and his plans for the farm.
The old man rose with difficulty from the chair, and, bent and barefooted, left the room in a staggering gait. Foma looked at his father, and a shooting chill of fear made his heart shrink. He washed himself in haste, and hurried out into the garden. There, under an old, spreading apple-tree sat Ignat in a big oaken armchair.
You are such a succulent woman, and yet you have no taste for anything. Fool!" Coming home intoxicated one day, he began to ply her with caresses, while she turned away from him. Then he grew angry, and exclaimed: "Natalya! Don't play the fool, look out!" She turned her face to him and asked calmly: "What then?" Ignat became enraged at these words and at her fearless look.
"This is not within our power; it's the will of the Lord," said she in a low voice. "Yes, the Lord's!" exclaimed Ignat with bitterness and drooped his head sadly. From that moment he began to look after his wife as though she were a little child. "Why do you sit near the window? Look out. You'll catch cold in your side; you may take sick," he used to say to her, both sternly and mildly.
It flew about in the ravine and at last hid itself somewhere with difficulty. We did not try to look for it, we felt sorry it was all bruised. Papa, is an owl entirely blind in daytime?" "Blind!" said Ignat; "some men will toss about in life even as this owl in daytime. Ever searching for his place, he strives and strives only feathers fly from him, but all to no purpose.
What else can there be in the water?" "There's the city Kitezh standing in the water." "That's a different thing! That's Kitezh. Only righteous people live there." "And are there no righteous cities on the sea?" "No," said Ignat, and, after a moment's silence, added: "The sea water is bitter and nobody can drink it." "And is there more land beyond the sea?" "Certainly, the sea must have an end.
One of them, the mightiest, was only greedy, and when Ignat lived according to its commands, he was merely a man seized with untamable passion for work. This passion burned in him by day and by night, he was completely absorbed by it, and, grabbing everywhere hundreds and thousands of roubles, it seemed as if he could never have enough of the jingle and sound of money.
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