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Updated: June 20, 2025
What put it into your head to visit your papa so suddenly?" "Well. . . . I had a little misunderstanding with my husband," said Yulia, looking at his cap. "Yes. What a queer fellow he is! All the Laptevs are queer. Your husband's all right he's nothing out of the way, but his brother Fyodor is a perfect fool." Panaurov sighed and asked seriously: "And have you a lover yet?"
Kish, nicknamed "the eternal student," was also like one of the family at the Laptevs'. He had been for three years studying medicine. Then he took up mathematics, and spent two years over each year's course. His father, a provincial druggist, used to send him forty roubles a month, to which his mother, without his father's knowledge, added another ten.
Going back into her room, she quietly washed and dressed, then she spent a long time in packing her things, until it was daylight, and at midday she set off for Moscow. In Holy Week the Laptevs went to an exhibition of pictures in the school of painting. The whole family went together in the Moscow fashion, the little girls, the governess, Kostya, and all.
If the Laptevs were not going to the theatre or a concert, the evening tea lingered on till supper. One evening in February the following conversation took place: "A work of art is only significant and valuable when there are some serious social problems contained in its central idea," said Kostya, looking wrathfully at Yartsev.
With the languor of a handsome man spoilt by too much love, he fondled the children without haste, then went into the study and said, rubbing his hands: "I've not come to stay long, my friends. I'm going to Petersburg to-morrow. They've promised to transfer me to another town." He was staying at the Dresden Hotel. A friend who was often at the Laptevs' was Ivan Gavrilitch Yartsev.
Panaurov had got a post in another town, and had been promoted an actual civil councillor, and was now staying at the Dresden. He came to the Laptevs' almost every day to ask for money. Kish had finished his studies at last, and while waiting for Laptev to find him a job, used to spend whole days at a time with them, telling them long, tedious stories.
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