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On seeing Tatiana, at first, he nodded as usual, making caressing, inarticulate sounds; then he looked carefully at her, dropped his spade, jumped up, went up to her, brought his face close to her face. . . . In her fright she staggered more than ever, and shut her eyes. . . . He took her by the arm, whirled her right across the yard, and going into the room where the council had been sitting, pushed her straight at Kapiton.
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 behaviour.
In her house were not only laundresses, sempstresses, carpenters, tailors and tailoresses, there was even a harness-maker he was reckoned as a veterinary surgeon, too, and a doctor for the servants; there was a household doctor for the mistress; there was, lastly, a shoemaker, by name Kapiton Klimov, a sad drunkard.
Eropegoff Eroshka Eropegoff didn't exist!" "Ha, ha! it's Eroshka now," laughed Hippolyte. "No, sir, Kapitoshka not Eroshka. I mean, Kapiton Alexeyevitch retired major married Maria Petrovna Lu Lu he was my friend and companion Lutugoff from our earliest beginnings. I closed his eyes for him he was killed. Kapiton Eropegoff never existed! tfu!"
The dissipated shoemaker came in, his hands behind him, and lounging carelessly against a projecting angle of the wall, near the door, crossed his right foot in front of his left, and tossed his head, as much as to say, 'What do you want? Gavrila looked at Kapiton, and drummed with his fingers on the window-frame.
"I signify my acquiescence," retorted Kapiton as he disappeared. His fine language did not desert him, even in the most trying positions. The steward walked several times up and down the room. "Well, call Tatiana now," he said at last. A few instants later, Tatiana had come up almost noiselessly, and was standing in the doorway. "What are your orders, Gavrila Andreitch?" she said in a soft voice.
Another time, noticing that Kapiton the same Kapiton who was the subject of the conversation reported above was gossiping somewhat too attentively with Tatiana, Gerasim beckoned him to him, led him into the cartshed, and taking up a shaft that was standing in a corner by one end, lightly, but most significantly, menaced him with it. Since then no one addressed a word to Tatiana.
You look like Old Nick himself, God forgive my saying so, that's what you look like." Kapiton blinked rapidly. "Go on abusing me, go on, if you like, Gavrila Andreitch," he thought to himself again. "Here you've been drunk again," Gavrila began, "drunk again, haven't you? Eh? Come, answer me!"
"I am drinking, Kapiton Andraitch," the clerk observed, emptying a glass down his throat. Golushkin followed his suit. "I wonder he doesn't burst!" Paklin whispered to Nejdanov. "He's used to it!" the latter replied. But the clerk was not the only one who drank. Little by little the wine affected them all. Nejdanov, Markelov, and even Solomin began taking part in the conversation.
His mistress's unexpected arrangement had clearly put him in a difficulty. At last he got up and sent to call Kapiton. Kapiton made his appearance.... But before reporting their conversation to the reader, we consider it not out of place to relate in few words who was this Tatiana, whom it was to be Kapiton's lot to marry, and why the great lady's order had disturbed the steward.
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