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Updated: June 19, 2025
Masha was just approaching the drawing-room door when the arrival of Kister and Lutchkov was announced. She promptly returned to her own room, and went up to the looking-glass.... Her heart was throbbing violently. A girl came to summon her to the drawing-room. Masha drank a little water, stopped twice on the stairs, and at last went down. Mr. Perekatov was not at home.
Suppose you have been deceived in life, have been embittered, what of it; there's no need to rush into people's arms, of course, but why turn your back on everybody? Why, you'll cast me off some day, at that rate, I suppose. Lutchkov went on smoking coolly.
'Oh, nothing! Avdey smiled with great meaning. 'Nothing! Kister looked searchingly at his friend. 'You are feeling hurt, my poor Avdey; tell me... Lutchkov went off into a chuckle. 'Oh, well, I don't fancy I've much to feel hurt about, he said, in a drawling tone, complacently stroking his moustaches.
'Excuse me, he began, as though in joke, 'but let me on my side know what you think of me, whether you feel at all... so to say,... amiably disposed towards my person? 'Mercy on us, how uncouth he is! Masha said to herself. 'Do you know, Mr. Lutchkov, she answered him with a smile, 'it's not always easy to give a direct answer to a direct question. 'Still... 'But what is it to you?
'No, do tell me, do tell me! 'Really, I don't know. 'Nonsense, come now! 'That... what's her name... Mashenka's all right; not bad-looking. 'There, you see... said Kister and he said no more. Five days later Lutchkov of his own accord suggested that they should call on the Perekatovs.
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!
Masha recovered herself, and gradually began to watch Lutchkov. To the questions addressed to him by the lady of the house, he answered briefly, but uneasily; he was shy, like all egoistic people. Nenila Makarievna suggested a stroll in the garden to her guests, but did not herself go beyond the balcony.
'All right, my man, you're so learned and well educated,... he would mutter between his teeth. 'I'll show you... that's all.... The officers did not long discuss the sudden friendship of Kister and Lutchkov; they were used to the duellist's queer ways.
The trampled grass had not yet grown straight again; the broken sapling had not yet withered, its little leaves were only just beginning to curl up and fade. Masha stared about her, and turned quickly to Kister. 'Do you know why I have brought you here? 'No, I don't. 'Don't you know? Why is it you haven't told me anything about your friend Lutchkov to-day? You always praise him so...
'I know nothing, and have learned nothing, and I have no talents, he said to himself; 'and so you too shall know nothing and not show off your talents before me.... Kister, perhaps, had made Lutchkov abandon the part he had taken up just because before his acquaintance with him, the bully had never met any one genuinely idealistic, that is to say, unselfishly and simple-heartedly absorbed in dreams, and so, indulgent to others, and not full of himself.
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