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Nádya, go away, you're not needed here. LEONÍD. Well, I know why: you want to marry her off. MADAM ULANBÉKOV. Whether I do or not, my dear, is my own business. Furthermore, I do not like to have any one meddle in my arrangements. VASILÍSA PEREGRÍNOVNA. What a clever young man you are; you know everything, you get into everything!
Sir Lionel being somewhat frigid and remote in his manner, appearing to take no more interest in me than if he were a big star and I a bit chipped off a Leonid, I delivered myself of what I had to say without great difficulty. I had a queer, numbed feeling, as though if it didn't matter to him, it didn't to me, until just at the last, when he said something that nearly made me cry.
GAVRÍLOVNA. Well, there's no harm in it! I was young once. I didn't run away from the gentlemen, and you see they didn't eat me. Perhaps even he won't bite you. Quit playing the prude, and stay here! But I'm going to get the tea ready! LEONÍD. Why did you not wish to remain with me? POTÁPYCH. What's this, sir! You talk to her as if she were a young lady! Call her Nádya!
VASILÍSA PEREGRÍNOVNA. Benefactress, one must have feeling for his fellow creature, one must have feeling. But what kind of feelings can such as they have, save ingratitude? MADAM ULANBÉKOV. No one's talking to you! Still crying! Your will must be obeyed! MADAM ULANBÉKOV. Well, I should say! Of course it must; because I brought you up; that's equal to giving you life itself. LEONÍD enters.
NÁDYA. What fellows you men are! You get sick of things in no time. But I, you see, am ready to sit out the whole night, to look at you, without lowering my eyes. It seems as if I should forget the whole world! Tears start in her eyes, she bends her head, and then looks at LEONÍD fixedly and musingly. LEONÍD. Now it would be nice to go rowing; it is warm, the moon is shining.
There were two girls in evening dress and two young men in the illuminated chariot. It flashed by like a Leonid, but left a gay impression of flower-tinted velvet cloaks and ermine and waved hair with a glitter of diamonds and oval white shirtfronts and black coats. Also a pair of eyes seemed to look for the twentieth part of a second into Winifred's.
LEONÍD. Indeed, mamma dear, I don't mean to meddle in your arrangements. Only he's a drunkard. MADAM ULANBÉKOV. And that, again, is none of your business. Leave that to your mother's judgment. LEONÍD. I'm only sorry for her, mamma. MADAM ULANBÉKOV. All very fine, my dear; but I should like to know from whom you heard that I'm going to marry NÁDYA. If one of the housemaids has....
LEONÍD. No, wait a bit; and what did the teacher do with you? Once, after a cruel torture, he commanded two students to fasten me by the neck with a belt, and to lead me through the market-place as a laughing-stock. MADAM ULANBÉKOV. How is it they took you into the civil service if you never learned anything? NEGLIGÉNTOV. Through the mediation of influential people.
Of his complex panorama the present volume gives a brief glimpse. MADAM ULANBÉKOV, an old woman of nearly sixty, tall, thin, with a large nose, and thick, black eyebrows; of an Eastern type of face, with a small mustache. She is powdered and rouged, and dressed richly in black. She is owner of two thousand serfs. LEONÍD, her son, eighteen years old, very handsome, resembling his mother slightly.
LEONÍD. What are you afraid of, Nádya? NÁDYA is silent. POTÁPYCH. Talk! What are you keeping still for? LEONÍD, NÁDYA, and then LÍZA NÁDYA. Of course I'm a girl of humble position, but, indeed, even we do not want anybody to speak evil of us. Pray consider yourself, after such talk, who would marry me? LEONÍD. Are you going to get married? NÁDYA. Yes, sir.
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