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Updated: June 6, 2025
But after ten minutes, when he was already lying in bed undressed and reading the statutes of state, Liubka, having scratched on his door like a cat, suddenly entered his room. "Darling, sweetie! Excuse me for troubling you. Haven't you a needle and thread? But don't get angry at me; I'll go away at once." "Liuba! I beg of you to go away not at once, but this second. Finally, I demand it!"
Now more and more frequently, after family quarrels, in the minutes of reconciliation he would say to Liubka: "My dear Liuba, you and I do not suit each other, comprehend that. Look: here are a hundred roubles for you, ride home. Your relatives will receive you as their own. Live there a while, look around you.
"Not to set you up, Liuba ... I simply want to help you ... For it isn't very sweet for you in a brothel, is it now!" "Naturally, it isn't all sugar! If I was as proud as Jennechka, or so enticing like Pasha ... but I won't get used to things here for anything ..." "Well, then, let's go, let's go! ..." entreated Lichonin.
"And that's splendid ... And fine and charming," Lichonin was saying, bustling about the lame table and without need shifting the tea things from one place to another. "For a long time, like an old crocodile, I haven't drunk tea as it should be drunk, in a Christian manner, in a domestic setting. Sit down, Liuba, sit down, my dear, right here on the divan, and keep house.
Of the girls only two remained in the cabinet-Jennie, who had come in her night blouse, and Liuba, who had long been sleeping under cover of the conversation, curled up into a ball in the large plush armchair.
With the air of an oracle, unshakable and austere, he spoke all sorts of erotic balderdash and almost unexpectedly concluded: "And so look, Liuba. The desire to love it's the same as the desire to eat, to drink, and to breathe the air."
Well, then, you'd best tell me so straight and give me a little for a cab, and some more, now; as much as you want ... The money for the night is paid anyway, and I only have to ride up to ... there." Lichonin seized his hair, flung himself about the room and began to declaim: "Ah, not that, not that, not that! Just understand me, Liuba!
But I know, that passion is at times stronger than the arguments of reason. Right here are fifty roubles I am leaving them for Liuba; you, of course, will return them to me later, I have no doubt of that. Be happy." He snatched out of his pocket and with effect threw his wallet on the table; then seized his hair and ran out of the room. Still, this was the best way out for him.
Since all the women were pompously silent, as though not noticing him, he traversed the drawing room and let himself down on a chair alongside of Liuba, who, in accordance with etiquette, only gathered up her skirt a little, preserving the abstracted and independent air of a girl from a respectable house. "How do you do, miss?" he said. "How do you do?" answered Liuba abruptly.
And, therefore, poor Liuba, at the very first injustice, at the first rebuff, will the more easily and readily go just there where I have gotten her out of; if not even worse, because for her that's customary and not so frightful; and, perhaps, it will even seem desirable after the masters' treatment.
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