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'Mihailo Mihailitch! cried Rudin, and held out his hand, but drew it back again in confusion. Lezhnyov made haste to snatch it in both of his. 'Come, come in! he said to Rudin, and drew him into the room. 'How you have changed! exclaimed Lezhnyov after a brief silence, involuntarily dropping his voice. 'Yes, they say so! replied Rudin, his eyes straying about the room.
'At last you have favoured me with a visit, Monsieur Lezhnyov! began Darya Mihailovna. 'Pray sit down. You are already acquainted, I hear, she continued, with a gesture in Rudin's direction. Lezhnyov looked at Rudin and smiled rather queerly. 'I know Mr. Rudin, he assented, with a slight bow. 'We were together at the university, observed Rudin in a low voice, dropping his eyes.
Lezhnyov jumped up. 'Rudin! he cried, 'why do you speak like that to me? How have I deserved it from you? Am I such a judge, and what kind of a man should I be, if at the sight of your hollow cheeks and wrinkles, "mere words" could occur to my mind? Do you want to know what I think of you, Dmitri? Well!
Whether it was that some idea had come upon him that he perhaps did not know Natalya's character at all that she was more a stranger to him than he had thought, or jealousy had begun to work in him, or he had some dim presentiment of ill... anyway, he suffered, though he tried to reason with himself. When he came in to his sister's room, Lezhnyov was sitting with her.
You would think the man had sunk altogether to the brute, but one had only to utter Pokorsky's name before him and every trace of noble feeling in him was stirred at once; it was like uncorking a forgotten phial of fragrance in some dark and dirty room. Lezhnyov stopped; his colourless face was flushed.
Every one, even Pigasov, was delighted at the news he had brought. 'Tell me, please, said Lezhnyov among the rest, 'rumours reached us of a certain Mr. Kortchagin. That was all nonsense, I suppose?
'What are you talking about? Upon my word! grumbled Lezhnyov, 'how can you scream like that? I dropped my pipe.... What's the matter with you? 'The matter is, that I can't hear his name and keep calm; it sets all my blood boiling! 'Hush, my dear fellow, hush! aren't you ashamed? rejoined Lezhnyov, picking up his pipe from the ground. 'Leave off! Let him alone!
She was uneasy about Rudin's visit the day before. 'You have seen my brother? she asked Lezhnyov. 'How is he to-day? 'All right, he has gone to the fields. Alexandra Favlovna did not speak for a minute. 'Tell me, please, she began, gazing earnestly at the hem of her pocket-handkerchief, 'don't you know why... 'Rudin came here? put in Lezhnyov. 'I know, he came to say good-bye.
Tell a woman the truth from conviction, and she will never rest easy till she has invented some petty outside cause quite beside the point which has made you speak in precisely that manner and no other. Alexandra Pavlovna began to get angry. 'Bravo, Monsieur Lezhnyov! You begin to be as bitter against women as Mr.
'And as for character you have no character at all, thank God! 'What impertinence is that? 'That? It's the highest compliment, believe me. Volintsev came in and looked suspiciously at Lezhnyov and his sister. He had grown thin of late. They both began to talk to him, but he scarcely smiled in response to their jests, and looked, as Pigasov once said of him, like a melancholy hare.
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