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Sanine scratched the nape of his neck, and crossed his legs. "Ah! of what good is it if they bloom here, since there is no one worthy to pluck them?" replied Lida. "Aha!" thought Sanine, suddenly becoming interested, "so that's what she's driving at!" This word-play, where sentiment and grossness were so obviously involved, he found extremely diverting. "Is it possible?" "Why, of course!
He had guessed that it was Lida who had come, and a vague sense of jealousy and pity was roused within him for his handsome sister, now obviously in great distress. Sideways, on Sarudine's bed, sat Lida, in despair, convulsively twisting her handkerchief. As he came in he was struck by her altered appearance. Of the proud, high-spirited girl there was not a trace.
Lida had heard her brother's last words, but did not know to what they referred. "You seem to have soon become bored!" cried she, laughing. "Let us go down to the river. It is charming there, now." As she passed in front of the men, her shapely figure swayed slightly, and there was a look of dark mystery in her eyes that seemed to say something, to promise something.
Her blushes and strange confusion of manner at last aroused her mother's suspicion, to avoid whose searching glances and anxious questionings Lida preferred to spend her days in solitude. Thus, on this evening she was seated by the river, watching the sunset and brooding over her grief. Life, as it seemed to her, was still incomprehensible. Her view of it was blurred as by some hideous phantom.
Now, why didn’t you fall in love with her sister? Florence says she is far more beautiful." Dr. Lacey answered calmly, "What reason has Miss Woodburn to think I am in love with either." "No reason," said Mabel, quickly; "neither does she think you are in love with her either." "Dear me," said Lida.
She was going to tell you herself, but, after all, it comes to the same thing." "What!" exclaimed Maria Ivanovna, drawing herself up. "Lida is going to be married!" "To whom?" "To Novikoff, of course." "Yes, but what about Sarudine?" "Oh! he can go to the devil!" exclaimed Sanine angrily. "What's that to do with you? Why meddle with other people's affairs?"
"We have no secrets from one another. I must tell my mother and my sister at once. . . . It's so dreadful! Mother is all right; mother likes you but Lida!" She ran to the gates. "Good-bye!" she called. And then for two minutes I heard her running. I did not want to go home, and I had nothing to go for.
"Go for a walk till supper-time," said Maria Ivanovna. "Delighted," exclaimed Sarudine. His spurs clinked, as he offered Lida his arm. "I hope that I may be allowed to come too," said Novikoff, meaning to be satirical, though his face wore a tearful expression. "Who is there to prevent you?" replied Lida, smiling, at him over her shoulder. "Yes, you go, too," exclaimed Sanine.
On the same day German aeroplanes attacked the important railroad junction at Lida on the Kovno-Vilna railway, and also Vileika on the railway running parallel to and east of the Warsaw-Vilna-Dvinsk-Petrograd railroad. In a way this signified the opening of the German offensive against Vilna. Concurrent with it the fighting on the Dvina between Friedrichstadt and Jacobstadt waxed more furious.
An obscure force, separating her from the world, swept her onward, past the sunlight, the verdure, and all the joy of life, towards a black gulf that by the dull anguish within her she knew to be near. An officer of her acquaintance rode by. On seeing Lida he reined in his horse, a roan, whose glossy coat shone in the sunlight.
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