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The door from the adjoining room opened quickly and Marfa Timofyevna came in with her cap in her hand. "I have found it at last," she said, standing between Lavretsky and Lisa; "I had laid it down myself. That's what age does for one, alack though youth's not much better." "Well, and are you going to Lavriky yourself with your wife?" she added, turning to Lavretsky. "To Lavriky with her?
You don't care to stay at Lavriky: well, that's your own affair, only mind you go and say a prayer at our mother's grave, and our grandmother's too while you are there. Out there in foreign parts you have picked up all kinds of ideas, but who knows? Perhaps even in their graves they will feel that you have come to them.
During the latter part of his residence in O he had completely lost Marya Dmitrievna's good graces; he had suddenly given up visiting her and scarcely stirred from Lavriky. Varvara Pavolvna had enslaved him, literally enslaved him, no other word can describe her boundless, irresistible, unquestioned sway over him.
Not in vain was the whole personality of his young wife breathing with fascination; not in vain was her promise to the senses of a mysterious luxury of untold bliss: her fulfilment was richer than her promise. Barbara Paulovna had no mind to establish herself permanently at Lavriky. The idea of staying in that out-of-the-way corner of the steppes never entered her head for an instant.
If she had proposed to establish herself at Lavriky, she would have changed everything in it, beginning of course with the house; but the idea of staying in that out-of-the-way corner of the steppes never entered her head for an instant; she lived as in a tent, good-temperedly putting up with all its inconveniences, and indulgently making merry over then.
"Stop a minute, I tell you," Lavretsky interrupted her, "I agree to live with you, Varvara Pavlovna," he continued, "that is to say, I will conduct you to Lavriky, and I will live there with you, as long as I can endure it, and then I will go away and will come back again. You see, I do not want to deceive you; but do not demand anything more.
"Still, I confess I did not expect this," rejoined Lavretsky; "there must be great effrontery to do this." "No, my darling, it's not effrontery, it's calculation, God forgive her! They say you are sending her off to Lavriky; is it true?" "Yes, I am giving up that property to Varvara Pavlovna." "Has she asked you for money?" "Not yet." "Well, that won't be long in coming.
"How was it you didn't understand me?" she commented: "I kept saying 'down." "It is better as it was, dear auntie; do not be uneasy it was all for the best," Varvara Pavlovna assured her. "Well, any way, he's as cold as ice," observed Marya Dmitrievna. "You didn't weep, it is true, but I was in floods of tears before his eyes. He wants to shut you up at Lavriky.
They looked at one another without speaking. "Well, what have you to say?" Lavretsky brought out at last. "What have I to say?" returned Lemm, grimly. "I have nothing to say. So you're going to the right, are you?" "Yes." "And I go to the left. Good-bye." The following morning Fedor Ivanitch set off with his wife for Lavriky.
I will take her to Lavriky; and remember, Varvara Pavlovna, our treaty is to be reckoned as broken directly you go away from Lavriky. And now allow me to take leave." He bowed to both the ladies, and hurriedly went away. "Are you not going to take her with you!" Marya Dmitrievna cried after him.... "Leave him alone," Varvara Pavlovna whispered to her.
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