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And father...father...he also with a cham...chambermaid." And the half-naked Jennka, this Jennka, the atheist, swearer, and brawler, suddenly got up from the bed, stood before the cadet, and slowly, almost solemnly, made the sign of the cross over him. "And may God preserve you my boy!" she said with an expression of deep tenderness and gratitude.
She bent down to Jennka and kissed her on the forehead. And never afterwards could Volodya Chaplinsky, who had been watching this scene with a painful tension, forget those warm and beautiful rays, which at this moment kindled in the green, long, Egyptian eyes of the artiste. The party departed gloomily, but Ryazanov lingered behind for a minute.
And now," Jennka suddenly straightened up quickly, seized Kolya fast by his bare shoulders, turned his face to her, so that he was almost blinded by the flashing of her sorrowful, sombre, extraordinary eyes, "and now, Kolya, I will tell you that for more than a month I am sick with this filth. And that's just why I haven't allowed you to kiss me..."
Following her Zoe, Henrietta, Vanda and others stepped up also. Tamara alone continued to stand near the wall with her back to the mirror; that mirror into which Jennka so loved to gaze, in gone-by times, admiring herself as she walked back and forth through the drawing room. Emma Edwardovna let the imperious, obstinate gaze of a boa-constrictor rest upon her; but the hypnosis did not work.
"But what are you so stuck on your Jennka for," said Henrietta. "You might take me." "All right, another time," answered Kolya and nervously began to smoke. Jennka was not even beginning to dress yet. She was sitting before the mirror and powdering her face. "What is it, Tamarochka?" she asked. "Your little cadet has come to you. He's waiting."
"Oh, that's all right!" said she and made a tired gesture with her hand. Having come out of the square, they parted; but, having gone a few steps, Jennka suddenly called after him: "Sergei Ivanovich, oh Sergei Ivanovich! ..." He stopped, turned around, walked back to her. "Roly-Poly croaked last evening in our drawing room.
Sobashnikov, despite his intoxication and wrath, still had knocking at the door of his mind the alluring thought that now it would be more convenient and easier before his comrades to call out Jennka on the quiet and to be alone with her. While Petrovsky, with exactly the same aim, went after Sobashnikov in order to make a loan of three roubles from him.
Jennka, who had been silent up to now, suddenly, with one quick movement sat up in bed. "You're all fools!" she cried. "Why do you forgive them all this?
Let her wash it out well and wear it in good health, in memory of me." The two of them were sitting in Tamara's room. Jennka had in the very morning sent after cognac; and now slowly, as though lazily, was imbibing wine-glass after wine-glass, eating lemon and a piece of sugar after drinking.
He, contrary to his usual brazenness, always bore himself with a shade of respect toward Jennka. Simeon said: "Well, now, Jennechka, their Excellency has come to Vanda. Allow her to go away for ten minutes." Vanda, a blue-eyed, light blonde, with a large red mouth, with the typical face of a Lithuanian, looked imploringly at Jennka.
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