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Updated: February 5, 2025
'Oh, really now, I want to know... 'But... Is it true that you are a great duellist? Tell me, is it true? said Masha, with shy curiosity. 'They do say you have killed more than one man? 'It has happened so, Avdey responded indifferently, and he stroked his moustaches. Masha looked intently at him. 'This hand then... she murmured. Meanwhile Lutchkov's blood had caught fire.
On Lutchkov's coming into the drawing-room alone, Masha was at first scared... but then she felt delighted. She had more than once fancied that there existed some sort of misunderstanding between Lutchkov and her, that he had not hitherto had a chance of revealing himself.
'What is it? she wondered, 'won't you... or can't you? It was Lutchkov's turn to feel shy. He was conscious again of his miserable, overwhelming diffidence; already he was raging!... 'It was the devil's own notion to have anything to do with the wretched girl, he muttered to himself.... And all the while how easy it was to touch Masha's heart at that instant!
Did not Lutchkov's avowal strike him so unpleasantly simply because it concerned Masha? How could one tell, perhaps Lutchkov really was in love with her.... Oh, no! no! a thousand times no! That man in love?... That man was loathsome with his bilious, yellow face, his nervous, cat-like movements, crowing with conceit... loathsome!
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