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Lavretsky stayed a few days in O before going to take up his residence, as he proposed doing, at Vassilyevskoe, a small estate of his some twenty miles distant. Mounting the steps of Kalitin's house to say good-bye before departing, he met Elizabeth coming down. "Where are you going?" he asked. "To service. It is Sunday." "Why do you go to church?" Lisa looked at him in silent amazement.
"What is all this about?" asked the Countess Lavretsky, who had been discussing opera with Lord Bantry and Mademoiselle de Cressy. Doon scientifically crystallized the argument. It held the octette, while men-servants in powder and gold-laced livery offered poires Zobraska, a subtle creation of the chef.
"Very good! That is what you want?" Lavretsky just managed to say. "Well, I consent even to that." Varvara Pavlovna shot a quick glance at him. Maria Dmitrievna exclaimed, "Thank God!" again took Varvara by the arm, and again began, "Take, then, from my hands " "Stop, I tell you!" broke in Lavretsky.
Lavretsky started suddenly. "You cannot be making up your mind to marry Panshin?" he said. Lisa gave an almost imperceptible smile. "Oh, no!" she said. "Ah, Lisa, Lisa!" cried Lavretsky, "how happy you might have been!" Lisa looked at him again. "Now you see yourself, Fedor Ivanitch, that happiness does not depend on us, but on God." "Yes, because you "
But I have only now got a look at you. Are you quite well?" "Yes." "Shurotchka!" cried Marfa Timofyevna suddenly, "run and tell Lisaveta Mihalovna, at least, no, ask her... is she down-stairs?" "Yes." "Well, then; ask her where she put my book? she will know." "Very well." The old lady grew fidgety again and began opening a drawer in the chest. Lavretsky sat still without stirring in his place.
I only wished to ensure Ada's future; I want nothing more." "Yes, you have attained all your ends," said Lavretsky. "There is only one thing I dream of now; to bury myself for ever in seclusion. But I shall always remember your kindness " "There! enough of that!" said he, trying to stop her.
Well, he is of good family, has a capital position, and is a clever fellow; and if it is God's will, I for my part shall be well pleased." She launched into a description of her cares and anxieties and maternal sentiments. Lavretsky listened in silence, turning his hat in his hands. Finally he rose, took his leave, and went upstairs to say good-bye to Marfa Timofyevna.
Lacking beauty, wit, and learning, she has an irrepressible and an irresistible virginal charm the exceedingly rare charm of youth when it seeks not its own. When she appears on the scene, the pages of the book seem illuminated, and her smile is a benediction. She is exactly the kind of woman to be loved by Lavretsky, and to be desired by a rake like Panshin.
Lavretsky make no reply at first, and Liza suddenly grew still redder than before. "Yes, yes! you have guessed it!" unexpectedly cried Lavretsky. "In the course of that fortnight I have learnt what a woman's heart is like when it is pure and clear; and my past life seems even farther off from me than it used to be."
Pale, half lifeless, with downcast eyes, that lady seemed as if she had surrendered her whole power of thinking or willing for herself, and had given herself over entirely into the hands of Maria Dmitrievna. Lavretsky recoiled a pace. "You have been there all this time!" he exclaimed. "Don't blame her," Maria Dmitrievna hastened to say.
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