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Updated: June 10, 2025
Eleonora Karpovna had most likely in her first youth been possessed of what the French for some unknown reason call beaute du diable, that is to say, freshness; but when I made her acquaintance, she suggested involuntarily to the mind a good-sized piece of meat, freshly laid by the butcher on a clean marble table.
'Na! gut, gut... geh, alte! Mr. Ratsch cut her short. 'Geh' schon, geh' schon, muttered Eleonora Karpovna, and she went away, still holding the kerchief with her fingers, and shedding tears. And I followed her. In the passage stood Viktor in a student's coat with a beaver collar and a cap stuck jauntily on one side.
'Mastridia Karpovna? I inquired. 'The same, at your service, the old woman replied in a piping voice. 'Please walk in. Won't you take a chair? The room into which the old woman conducted me was so littered up with every sort of rubbish, rags, pillows, feather-beds, sacks, that one could hardly turn round in it.
Ratsch walked behind, with the tips of his fingers on the coffin lid, continually repeating, 'Easy, easy! Behind him waddled Eleonora Karpovna in a black dress, also adorned with crape, surrounded by her whole family; after all of them, Viktor stepped out in a new uniform with a sword with crape round the handle.
Marfinka whispered to Vikentev that he did know, and had gone out on that account. "I will go, Marfa Vassilievna, and hide behind a bush, imitate Boris Pavlovich's voice and make her a declaration," suggested Vikentev. "Stay here, Nikolai Andreevich. Paulina Karpovna might be frightened and faint. Then you would have to reckon with Grandmother."
In the room she had left everyone was in gay humour, and Niel Andreevich condescended to share the general laughter, in which however, neither Raisky nor Vera joined. Paulina Karpovna might be eccentric, but that did not excuse either the loonish amusement of the people assembled or the old man's attacks. Raisky remained gloomily silent, and shifted his feet ominously.
'There, the way she loves Russia, it's simply awful! broke in Ivan Demianitch. 'A perfect volcano, ho, ho! 'Well, and what of it? pursued Eleonora Karpovna. 'To be sure I love Russia, for where else could I obtain noble rank? And my children too are nobly born, you know. Kolia, sitze ruhig mit den Fussen! Ratsch waved his hand to her. 'There, there, princess, don't excite yourself!
"Grandmother is very angry, and is grumbling...." "I was with Leonti," returned Raisky indifferently. "I thought so, and told Grandmother so, but she won't listen and will hardly speak even to Tiet Nikonich. He is with her now and Paulina Karpovna too. Go to Grandmother, and it will be all right. Are you afraid. Does your heart beat fast?" Raisky had to laugh. "She is very angry.
Susanna made Eleonora Karpovna no reply she did not even look at her only there was a faint movement of her eyes, under their dropped lids, in her direction. From this movement alone this movement of her pupils I could perceive what was the nature of the feeling Susanna cherished for the second wife of her stepfather.... And again I was delighted at something. Meanwhile the duet was over.
She was always singing and said she felt very well, and I took back the books we had borrowed from the library unread, because she gave up reading; she only wanted to dream and to talk of the future. She would hum as she mended my clothes or helped Karpovna with the cooking, or talk of her Vladimir, of his mind, and his goodness, and his fine manners, and his extraordinary learning.
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