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Updated: May 17, 2025
There are some people with whom you absolutely have to agree." "Well?" I asked Maksim Maksimych. "Did he really succeed in making her grow accustomed to him, or did she pine away in captivity from home-sickness?" "Good gracious! how could she pine away from home-sickness? From the fortress she could see the very same hills as she could from the village and these savages require nothing more.
I confess that I also was awaiting this Pechorin's appearance with a certain amount of impatience although, from the staff-captain's story, I had formed a by no means favourable idea of him. Still, certain traits in his character struck me as remarkable. In an hour's time one of the old soldiers brought a steaming samovar and a teapot. "Won't you have some tea, Maksim Maksimych?"
"I am going to Persia and farther."... "But surely not immediately?... Wait a little, my dear fellow!... Surely we are not going to part at once?... What a long time it is since we have seen each other!"... "It is time for me to go, Maksim Maksimych," was the reply. "Good heavens, good heavens! But where are you going to in such a hurry? There was so much I should have liked to tell you!
And, for that very reason, it was a memorable year to me. He gave me a great deal of trouble but there, let bygones be bygones!... You see, it is true enough, there are people like that, fated from birth to have all sorts of strange things happening to them!" "Strange?" I exclaimed, with an air of curiosity, as I poured out some tea. "WELL, then, I'll tell you," said Maksim Maksimych.
I posted on, and he, on account of his heavy luggage, was unable to follow me. We had no expectation of ever meeting again, but meet we did, and, if you like, I will tell you how it is quite a history... You must acknowledge, though, that Maksim Maksimych is a man worthy of all respect... If you admit that, I shall be fully rewarded for my, perhaps, too lengthy story.
"I took him by the hand and said: "'I'm delighted to see you delighted! It will be a bit dull for you... but there, we will live together like a couple of friends. But, please, call me simply "Maksim Maksimych"; and, tell me, what is this full uniform for? Just wear your forage-cap whenever you come to me! "Quarters were assigned to him and he settled down in the fortress." "What was his name?"
I left a candle on the stove-seat, and, wrapping myself up in my cloak, I lay down on the couch and soon fell into slumber; and I would have slept on quietly had not Maksim Maksimych awakened me as he came into the room. It was then very late. He threw his pipe on the table, began to walk up and down the room, and to rattle about at the stove.
We shout to him: 'Run, run, run!.... He should have rushed to one side, but he up and ran straight before him.... He was scared, to be sure. The ash-tree covered him with its top branches. But why it fell so soon, the Lord only knows!... Perhaps it was rotten at the core. 'And so it crushed Maksim? 'Yes, sir. 'To death?
'Are you sad? "'No! "'Do you want anything? "'No! "'You are pining for your kinsfolk? "'I have none! "Sometimes for whole days not a word could be drawn from her but 'Yes' and 'No. "So I straightway proceeded to talk to Pechorin about her." "'LISTEN, Maksim Maksimych, said Pechorin.
It is a convoy composed of half a company of infantry, with a cannon which escorts baggage-trains through Kabardia from Vladikavkaz to Ekaterinograd. The first day I found the time hang on my hands dreadfully. Early next morning a vehicle drove into the courtyard... Aha! Maksim Maksimych!... We met like a couple of old friends.
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