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That is my home, do you hear, old fellow? Thought, too, has its veterans; they, too, ought to have their home. Rudin got up. 'Thanks, brother, he said, 'thanks! I will not forget this in you. Only I do not deserve a home. I have wasted my life, and have not served thought, as I ought. 'Hush! said Lezhnyov. 'Every man remains what Nature has made him, and one cannot ask more of him!
He lived a good while with her, and at last threw her over or no, I beg pardon, she threw him over. It was then that I too threw him over. That's all. Lezhnyov ceased speaking, passed his hand over his brow, and dropped into a chair as if he were exhausted. 'Do you know, Mihailo Mihailitch, began Alexandra Pavlovna, 'you are a spiteful person, I see; indeed you are no better than Pigasov.
But it's curious: you see he thought it his duty to write you this letter, and he came to see you from a sense of duty... these gentlemen find a duty at every step, some duty they owe... or some debt, added Lezhnyov, pointing with a smile to the postscript. 'And what phrases he rounds off! cried Volintsev. 'He was mistaken in me. He expected I would be superior to my surroundings.
What is there to do? 'What is there to do! To keep an old blind woman and all her family by one's work, as, do you remember, Mihail, Pryazhentsov did... That's doing something. 'Yes, but a good word is also something done. Rudin looked at Lezhnyov without speaking and faintly shook his head. Lezhnyov wanted to say something, and he passed his hand over his face.
Burnt his midnight lamp Before the holy and the true, as a dear half-cracked fellow, the poet of our set, expressed it. 'And how did he talk? Alexandra Pavlovna questioned again. 'He talked well when he was in the mood, but not remarkably so. Rudin even then was twenty times as eloquent as he. Lezhnyov stood still and folded his arms. 'Pokorsky and Rudin were very unlike.
I will tell you about our life in those days some other time, I can't now. Then he went abroad.... Lezhnyov continued to walk up and down the room; Alexandra Pavlovna followed him with her eyes.
'That is, you threw up your daily bread, Dmitri, said Lezhnyov, laying both hands on Rudin's shoulders. 'Yes, and again I was turned adrift, empty-handed and penniless, to fly whither I listed. Ah! let us drink! 'To your health! said Lezhnyov, getting up and kissing Rudin on the forehead. 'To your health and to the memory of Pokorsky. He, too, knew how to be poor.
Lezhnyov, on his part, too, treated him coldly. He did not, however, report his final conclusions about him, which somewhat disquieted Alexandra Pavlovna. She was fascinated by Rudin, but she had confidence in Lezhnyov. Every one in Darya Mihailovna's house humoured Rudin's fancies; his slightest preferences were carried out He determined the plans for the day.
At last the waiter took away the last dish, Lezhnyov got up, closed the door, and coming back to the table, sat down facing Rudin, and quietly rested his chin on his hands. 'Now, then, he began, 'tell me all that has happened to you since I saw you last. Rudin looked at Lezhnyov. 'Good God! thought Lezhnyov, 'how he has changed, poor fellow!
Lezhnyov let him pass, looked after him, and after a moment's thought he too turned his horse's head round, and drove back to Volintsev's, where he had spent the night. He found him asleep, and giving orders he should not be waked, he sat down on the balcony to wait for some tea and smoked a pipe. Volintsev got up at ten o'clock.
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