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She put up her hands to cover her face and turned her head away, while Mrs. Blakeston kept on hitting mercilessly. 'Time! shouted some of the men 'Time! and Mrs. Blakeston stopped to rest herself. 'It don't seem 'ardly fair to set them two on tergether. Liza's got no chanst against a big woman like thet, said a man among the crowd.
"But no no;" and she raised her handkerchief to her lips. "At least, then, give me that handkerchief " The door creaked. The handkerchief glided down to Liza's knees. Lavretsky seized it before it had time to fall on the floor, and quickly hid it away in his pocket; then, as he turned round, he encountered the glance of Marfa Timofeevna's eyes.
In her despair, Marfa Timofeevna tried to turn threats to account, said she would reveal every thing to Liza's mother; but that too had no effect. All that Liza would consent to do in consequence of the old lady's urgent entreaties, was to put off the execution of her plan for a half year.
Then, gathering up the spittle in her mouth, she spat in Liza's face. Liza sprang on her, and with her hands spread out like claws buried her nails in the woman's face and drew them down her cheeks. Mrs. Blakeston caught hold of her hair with both hands and tugged at it as hard as she could. But they were immediately separated. ''Ere, 'old 'ard! said some of the men.
Well, I am a scoundrel." These tears and these words turned Groholsky's soul inside out. He would look timidly at Liza's pale face and wring his hands. "Go to bed, Ivan Petrovitch," he would say timidly. "I am going. . . . Come along, Mishutka. . . . The Lord be our judge!
It was maintained in one group, for instance, that Yulia Mihailovna had arranged Liza's elopement with Stavrogin and had been paid by the latter for doing so. Even the sum paid was mentioned.
The vague half presentiment, half suspicion, which had been arising within me, had vanished. The sudden constraint in Liza's manner towards me I ascribed to maidenly bashfulness, timidity.... Hadn't I read a thousand times over in many books that the first appearance of love always agitates and alarms a young girl? I felt supremely happy, and was already making all sorts of plans in my head.
"'Shall you see him again? she asks me. "'Yes'm, I'll see him at New Awlins, I says. "'You may tell him, she says, her face gettin' pink, 'that as far as my horse is concerned I haven't changed my mind. "On the way back to the house I gets to thinkin'. "'I'm goin' round to the kitchen 'n' say hello to Aunt Liza, I says to Miss Goodloe. "Liza's glad to see me this time mighty glad.
"They are perfectly safe, aren't they? Every one of the little angels sound asleep in bed. Listen to their gentle breathing." Here Michael, encouraged by his success, breathed so loudly that they were nearly detected. Nana knew that kind of breathing, and she tried to drag herself out of Liza's clutches. But Liza was dense. "No more of it, Nana," she said sternly, pulling her out of the room.
There was not a single good-looking face among the portraits, nothing but broad cheekbones and astonished-looking eyes. Lyalikov, Liza's father, had a low forehead and a self-satisfied expression; his uniform sat like a sack on his bulky plebeian figure; on his breast was a medal and a Red Cross Badge.
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