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Updated: May 17, 2025
The host positively rushed into the hall. After him ran a few devoted members of the household and eager guests.... The noisy talk was transformed into a subdued pleasant chat, like the buzzing of bees in spring within their hives. Only the turbulent wasp, Lupihin, and the splendid drone, Kozelsky, did not subdue their voices.... And behold, at last, the queen! the great dignitary entered.
Beside him stood a country gentleman, broad, soft, and sweet a veritable sugar-and-honey mixture with one eye. He laughed in anticipation at the witticisms of the little man, and seemed positively melting with delight. Voinitsin presented me to the wit, whose name was Piotr Petrovitch Lupihin. We were introduced and exchanged the preliminary civilities.
'Allow me to present to you my best friend, said Lupihin suddenly in a strident voice, seizing the sugary gentleman by the arm. 'Come, don't resist, Kirila Selifanitch, he added; 'we're not going to bite you. I commend him to you, he went on, while the embarrassed Kirila Selifanitch bowed with about as much grace as if he were undergoing a surgical operation; 'he's a most superior gentleman.
"Then bleed him," he'd say. And it would be highly indecorous, in your position, you'll admit. The sugary gentleman was positively rolling with mirth. 'You see he laughs, Lupihin pursued with a malignant glance at Kirila Selifanitch's heaving stomach. What! Why, one fine day she ran away with him and left me a letter.
It's for all the world like hacking at a ship's cable with a blunt knife. He can't bear me.... I'm going to bow to him. And Lupihin ran off to meet the prince. 'And here comes my special enemy, he observed, turning all at once to me.
Hearts bounded to meet him, sitting bodies rose; even the gentleman who had bought a horse from Lupihin poked his chin into his chest.
'And here comes the general, pursued Lupihin, 'the civilian general, a retired, destitute general. He has a daughter of beetroot-sugar, and a manufactory with scrofula.... Beg pardon, I've got it wrong... but there, you understand. Ah! and the architect's turned up here!
A German, and wears moustaches, and does not understand his business a natural phenomenon!... though what need for him to understand his business so long as he takes bribes and sticks in pillars everywhere to suit the tastes of our pillars of society! Lupihin chuckled again.... But suddenly a wave of excitement passed over the whole house. The grandee had arrived.
He enjoyed excellent health up to the age of fifty, then suddenly conceived the idea of doctoring his eyes, in consequence of which he has lost one. Since then he doctors his peasants with similar success.... They, to be sure, repay with similar devotion... 'What a fellow it is! muttered Kirila Selifanitch. And he laughed. 'Speak out, my friend; eh, speak out! Lupihin rejoined.
Upon my word, he keeps looking at his watch, smiling, perspiring, putting on a solemn face, keeping us all starving for our dinner! Such a prodigy! a real court grandee! Look, look, he's running again bounding, positively, look! And Lupihin laughed shrilly. 'The only pity is, there are no ladies, he resumed with a deep sigh; 'it's a bachelor party, else that's when your humble servant gets on.
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