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'Has he come here for long, do you know? 'Yes, I believe he has to be here for a fortnight. And Kirilla Matveitch hurried away to dress. I walked several times up and down the drawing-room.
I began, as before, to be a frequent visitor at the house of the Ozhogins. Kirilla Matveitch received me with more effusiveness and affability than he had ever done. I have even ground for believing that he would at that time have cheerfully given me his daughter, though I was certainly not a match to be coveted.
Vavila!" the old man called to him. "Yes!" "Vavila, when anyone dies how long does his soul walk the earth?" Vavila stopped the horse and only then answered: "Nine days. My uncle Kirilla died and his soul lived in our hut thirteen days after." "How do you know?" "For thirteen days there was a knocking in the stove." "Well, that's all right.
It is needless to say that in resolving on this step I persuaded myself that I was acting from the most disinterested motives, was desirous of the general welfare, and was doing my duty as a friend of the house.... But I venture to think that even had Kirilla Matveitch not cut short my outpourings, I should in any case not have had courage to finish my monologue.
In the middle of this thicket stood an old summer-house in the Chinese style: a wooden paling separated the garden from a blind alley. Liza would sometimes walk, for hours together, alone in this garden. Kirilla Matveitch was aware of this, and forbade her being disturbed or followed; let her grief wear itself out, he said.
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