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You were continually with Tánya, and you never left her, so they called you the "doves." BABÁYEV. One's heart's not a stone, Lukérya Danílovna. Even you yourself do you remember the surveyor? LUKÉRYA. He isn't worth remembering. Later on he behaved in a very ungentlemanly way to me. But fate has punished him for his lack of courtesy towards a girl of noble birth.
I did not break the silence, and did not stir on the narrow tub which served me as a seat. The cruel stony stillness of the living, unlucky creature lying before me communicated itself to me; I too turned, as it were, numb. 'Listen, Lukerya, I began at last; 'listen to the suggestion I'm going to make to you.
Strikes the spoon against the bowl angrily. LUKÉRYA enters, places a bowl of mush on the table, and goes out. ARKHÍP. Your wife is wiser than you, really wiser. KRASNÓV. If she were wise she'd obey her husband. ARKHÍP. Not necessarily! One can't be on one's guard every minute! Don't you hold anger for every little thing.
Lukerya suddenly gave a sort of choked cough, and groaned.... 'You are talking a great deal, I observed to her; 'it may be bad for you. 'It's true, she whispered, hardly audibly; 'it's time to end our talk; but what does it matter! Now, when you leave me, I can be silent as long as I like. Any way, I've opened my heart.... I began bidding her good-bye.
Peter's day. They told me that on the day of her death she kept hearing the sound of bells, though it was reckoned over five miles from Aleksyevka to the church, and it was a week-day. Lukerya, however, had said that the sounds came not from the church, but from above! Probably she did not dare to say from heaven. 'I've something to tell you, observed Yermolai, coming into the hut to see me.
TATYÁNA. This doesn't concern him. You are my acquaintance; you call on me, not him. LUKÉRYA. Then we on our side will observe the courtesies and will return your call. Besides, we often visit your landlady, so if it's pleasant for you to see us, you can call in there. BABÁYEV. My darling Tatyána Danílovna, be perfectly frank with me. You know what kind feelings I've always had for you.
'How silly I am! said Lukerya suddenly, with unexpected force, and opened her eyes wide: she tried to wink the tears out of them. 'I ought to be ashamed! What am I doing? It's a long time since I have been like this... not since that day when Vassya-Polyakov was here last spring. While he sat with me and talked, I was all right; but when he had gone away, how I did cry in my loneliness!
She had with a feeling of self-satisfaction just taught Lukerya how to mix the dough, when her six-year-old grandson Misha, wearing an apron and with darned stockings on his crooked little legs, ran into the kitchen with a frightened face. 'Grandma, a dreadful old man wants to see you. Lukerya looked out at the door. 'There is a pilgrim of some kind, a man...
There are memories, my darling Tatyána Danílovna, which are not readily forgotten. My acquaintance with you was of that sort. Isn't that so? BABÁYEV. Let me assure you that as soon as I could tear myself away from St. Petersburg, and come to the country, I continually sought an occasion to visit this city and to find you without fail. LUKÉRYA. Have you never found such an occasion before now?
TATYÁNA. "When that man leaves," he said, "then you may do anything you like, and go anywhere, but because you didn't heed my command, don't dare cross the threshold until he has left the city for good." LUKÉRYA. What did you say to that? TATYÁNA. He kept shouting but I kept still through it all; but it hurts me because he lords it over me so.
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