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Only there's one thing, he pursued aloud: 'the wife our lady's picked out for you is an unlucky choice. 'Why, who is she, permit me to inquire? 'Tatiana. 'Tatiana? And Kapiton opened his eyes, and moved a little away from the wall. 'Well, what are you in such a taking for?... Isn't she to your taste, hey? 'Not to my taste, do you say, Gavrila Andreitch!
The steward looked at her intently. "Well, Taniusha," he said, "would you like to be married? Our lady has chosen a husband for you?" "Yes, Gavrila Andreitch. And whom has she deigned to name as a husband for me?" she added falteringly. "Kapiton, the shoemaker." "Yes, sir." "He's a feather-brained fellow, that's certain. But it's just for that the mistress reckons upon you." "Yes, sir."
The poor girl refused for a long while to agree to this, but they persuaded her at last; she saw, too, that it was the only possible way of getting rid of her adorer. She went out. Kapiton was released from the lumber-room; for, after all, he had an interest in the affair.
He only seemed, as it were, more morose, and took not the slightest notice of Tatiana or Kapiton. The same evening, they both had to appear before their mistress with geese under their arms, and in a week's time they were married. Even on the day of the wedding Gerasim showed no change of any sort in his behavior.
So one day his mistress had a conversation about him with her head steward, Gavrila, a man whom, judging solely from his little yellow eyes and nose like a duck's beak, fate itself, it seemed, had marked out as a person in authority. The lady expressed her regret at the corruption of the morals of Kapiton, who had, only the evening before, been picked up somewhere in the street.
Not long ago I bought some mill-stones in the town, so I took them home, and as I went to lift them out of the cart, I strained myself, or something; I'd a sort of rick in the loins, as though something had been torn away, and ever since I've been out of sorts. To-day I feel worse than ever. 'Hm, commented Kapiton, and he took a pinch of snuff; 'that's a rupture, no doubt.
'Well, good-bye, Kapiton Timofeitch, don't remember evil against me, and remember my orphans, if anything.... 'Oh, do stay, Vassily! The peasant simply shook his head, struck the horse with the reins, and drove out of the yard. The road was muddy and full of holes; the miller drove cautiously, without hurry, guiding his horse skilfully, and nodding to the acquaintances he met.
Kapiton stayed till late at night at the ginshop with a friend of his, a man of gloomy appearance, to whom he related in detail how he used to live in Petersburg with a gentleman, who would have been all right, except he was a bit too strict, and he had a slight weakness besides, he was too fond of drink; and, as to the fair sex, he didn't stick at anything.
Even your own son supports my statement that there never was such a person as Captain Eropegoff!" that the old fellow muttered confusedly: "Kapiton Eropegoff not Captain Eropegoff! Kapiton major retired Eropegoff Kapiton." "Kapiton didn't exist either!" persisted Gania, maliciously. "What? Didn't exist?" cried the poor general, and a deep blush suffused his face.
When Gavrila came to her after morning tea with his report, her first question was: 'And how about our wedding is it getting on all right? He replied, of course, that it was getting on first rate, and that Kapiton would appear before her to pay his reverence to her that day. The old lady was not quite well; she did not give much time to business.
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