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He indulged in a vivid picture of the confusion of the expelled general, the useless airs which he would put on, and, in spite of his sorrow, he was conscious of a certain malicious satisfaction. At the same time he wrote to Glafira Petrovna, asking her to return to Lavriki, and drew up a power-of-attorney in her name.
"I certainly must confess I did not expect this," answered Lavretsky. "This must have required considerable daring." "No, my dear, it isn't daring with her, it is calculation. However, God be with her! They say you are going to send her to Lavriki. Is that true?" "Yes; I am going to make over that property to her." "Has she asked you for money?" "Not yet."
I repeat, I will live with you or, no, I cannot promise that; but I will no longer avoid you; I will look on you as my wife again " "At all events, give her your hand on that," said Maria Dmitrievna, whose tears had dried up long ago. "I have never yet deceived Varvara Pavlovna," answered Lavretsky. "She will believe me as it is. I will take her to Lavriki. But remember this, Varvara Pavlovna.
But he has been good enough to let me have Lavriki to live in." "Ah, a lovely place!" "I shall set off there to-morrow, according to his desire. But I considered it a duty to pay you a visit first." "I am very, very much obliged to you my dear. One ought never to forget one's relations. But do you know I am astonished at your speaking Russian so well. C'est étonnant." Varvara Pavlovna smiled.
"Well, what have you to say?" asked Lavretsky at last. "What have I to say?" replied Lemm, in a surly voice. "I have nothing to say. "Yes." "And I am going to the left. Good-bye." On the following morning Lavretsky took his wife to Lavriki. She went in front in a carriage with Ada and Justine. He followed behind in a tarantass.
Ivan Petrovich spent the greater part of the year at Lavriki that was the name of his chief hereditary estate; but in winter he used to go by himself to Moscow, where he put up at a hotel, attended his club assiduously, aired his eloquence freely, explained his plans in society, and more than ever gave himself out as an Anglomaniac, a grumbler, and a statesman.
They did not suspect what was really the truth, that Lavriki was repugnant to its owner, that it aroused in his mind too painful recollections. After they had whispered to each other enough, Anton took a stick, and struck the watchman's board, which had long hung silently by the barn. Then he lay down in the open yard, without troubling himself about any covering for his white head.
Shurochka burst into a laugh she was unable to stifle, and ran out of the room. Lavretsky also rose from his seat. "Yes," he said slowly; "one cannot fathom a girl's heart." As he was going to take leave. "Well; shall we see you soon?" asked Marfa Timofeevna. "Perhaps, aunt. It's no great distance to where I'm going." "Yes; you're going, no doubt, to Vasilievskoe. You won't live at Lavriki.
Petersburg. A modest, but pretty set of rooms had been found for her there by Panshine, who had left the province of O. rather earlier than she did. During the latter part of his stay in O., he had completely lost Madame Kalitine's good graces. He had suddenly given up visiting her, and indeed scarcely stirred away from Lavriki. Varvara Pavlovna had enslaved literally enslaved him.
"I had trouble enough to find it," she said, standing between Liza and Lavretsky; "I had stuffed it away myself. Dear me, see what old age comes to! But, after all, youth is no better. Well, are you going to Lavriki with your wife?" she added, turning to Fedor Ivanovich. "To Lavriki with her? I? I don't know," he added, after a short pause. "Won't you pay a visit down stairs?" "Not to-day."
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