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Updated: May 20, 2025
A kammer-junker, and received in the best society. You must have heard of him: Panshin, Vladimir Nikolaitch. He is here on a government commission ... future minister, I daresay!" "And an artist?" "An artist at heart, and so well-bred. You shall see him.
My coachman Nikanor, wearing high felt boots and the skirt of his coat tucked up through his belt, all wet with the snow and glad I was going away, gave me a friendly smile and said: "A fortunate journey, your Excellency. God give you luck." Every one, by the way, calls me "your Excellency," though I am only a collegiate councillor and a kammer-junker.
Wasn't he good enough for you? A kammer-junker! not interesting! He might have married any Maid of Honour he liked in Petersburg. And I I had so hoped for it! Is it long that you have changed towards him? How has this misfortune come on us, it cannot have come of itself! Is it that dolt of a cousin's doing? A nice person you have picked up to advise you!"
One may think oneself master, married, rich, a kammer-junker, as much as one likes, and at the same time not know what it means. After supper some one downstairs began singing in a tenor voice. "Why, nothing special has happened," I tried to persuade myself. "Why am I so upset? I won't go downstairs tomorrow, that's all; and that will be the end of our quarrel."
"When he was capricious, condescending, told you lies, I marvelled how it was you did not see, did not understand, when it was all so clear! You kissed his hands, you knelt to him, you flattered him. . ." "When I . . . kissed his hands and knelt to him, I loved him . . ." she said, blushing crimson. "Can it have been so difficult to see through him? A fine sphinx! A sphinx indeed a kammer-junker!
As, feeling quite worn out and shattered, I held the papers and the exercise books to my breast with both hands, and passing through my bedroom saw my trunks, the sound of weeping reached me through the floor. "Are you a kammer-junker?" a voice whispered in my ear. "That's a very pleasant thing. But yet you are a reptile." "It's all nonsense, nonsense, nonsense," I muttered as I went downstairs.
"Is that all, really?" said Aglaya, candidly, without the slightest show of confusion. "However, it's not so bad, especially if managed with economy. Do you intend to serve?" "I I intended to try for a certificate as private tutor." "Very good. That would increase our income nicely. Have you any intention of being a Kammer-junker?" "A Kammer-junker? I had not thought of it, but "
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