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Updated: June 5, 2025
Ah! how glad I am for my brother I And Natalya, is she bright and happy? 'Yes. She is quiet, as she always is. You know her but she seems contented. The evening was spent in friendly and lively talk. They sat down to supper. 'Oh, by the way, inquired Lezhnyov of Bassistoff, as he poured him out some Lafitte, 'do you know where Rudin is? 'I don't know for certain now.
'And we met afterwards also, remarked Lezhnyov coldly. Darya Mihailovna looked at both in some perplexity and asked Lezhnyov to sit down He sat down. 'You wanted to see me, he began, 'on the subject of the boundary? 'Yes; about the boundary. But I also wished to see you in any case. We are near neighbours, you know, and all but relations. 'I am much obliged to you, returned Lezhnyov.
'But confess, you have never been able to forgive Rudin, all the same, Alexandra Pavlovna was beginning. 'Not at all! interposed Lezhnyov, 'why, I cried like a child when he was going abroad. Still, to tell the truth, even then there was the germ in my heart. And when I met him later abroad... well, by that time I had grown older.... Rudin struck me in his true light.
'You are very good to us, was her comment 'But what was I going to say? What were we speaking of? Oh, yes; Lezhnyov: I have some business with him about a boundary. I have several times invited him here, and even to-day I am expecting him; but there's no knowing whether he'll come... he's such a strange creature.
'A certain Lezhnyov, Mihailo Mihailitch, a landowner here. Rudin seemed astonished; he raised his head. 'Lezhnyov Mihailo Mihailitch? he questioned. 'Is he a neighbour of yours? 'Yes. Do you know him? Rudin did not speak for a minute. 'I used to know him long ago. He is a rich man, I suppose? he added, pulling the fringe on his chair.
'We are here, replied the boy, trying to smile above the high collar of his cloak, 'but the reason why the wheel did not come off 'Is there no one in here? sounded a voice in the corridor. Lezhnyov started and listened. 'Eh? who is there? repeated the voice. Lezhnyov got up, walked to the door, and quickly threw it open.
On his return home, Volintsev was so gloomy and dejected, he gave his sister such listless answers, and so quickly locked himself up in his room, that she decided to send a messenger to Lezhnyov. She always had recourse to him in times of difficulty. Lezhnyov sent her word that he would come in the next day. Volintsev was no more cheerful in the morning.
'I said what it has been for ever so long, answered Lezhnyov, 'on the tip of my tongue to say a thousand times over. I have brought it out at last, and you must act as you think best. But I will go away now, so as not to be in your way. If you will be my wife... I will walk away... if you don't dislike the idea, you need only send to call me in; I shall understand....
I had rather go out to the fields, said Volintsev, putting on his out-of-door coat. 'Well, that's a good thing too. Go along, and look at the fields.... And Lezhnyov betook himself to the apartments of Alexandra Pavlovna. He found her in the drawing-room. She welcomed him effusively. She was always pleased when he came; but her face still looked sorrowful.
I will not even quarrel with him for being a tyrant at heart, lazy, ill-informed! Alexandra Pavlovna clasped her hands. 'Rudin ill-informed! she cried. 'Ill-informed! repeated Lezhnyov in precisely the same voice, 'that he likes to live at other people's expanse, to cut a good figure, and so forth all that's natural enough. But what's wrong is, that he is as cold as ice.
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