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The kind-hearted Maksim Maksimych had become the obstinate, cantankerous staff-captain! And why? Because Pechorin, through absent-mindedness or from some other cause, had extended his hand to him when Maksim Maksimych was going to throw himself on his neck!
"Or, you, my man, won't you be going over to him for something?... If you do, tell him that Maksim Maksimych is here; just say that he'll know! I'll give you half a ruble for a tip!" The manservant made a scornful face on hearing such a modest promise, but he assured Maksim Maksimych that he would execute his commission.
"He'll be sure to come running up directly!" said Maksim Maksimych, with an air of triumph. "I will go outside the gate and wait for him! Ah, it's a pity I am not acquainted with Colonel N !" Maksim Maksimych sat down on a little bench outside the gate, and I went to my room.
'We've sent for the doctor, Maksim, said my neighbour; 'perhaps you may not die yet. He tried to open his eyes, and with an effort raised the lids. 'No, I'm dying. Here... here it is coming... here it.... Forgive me, lads, if in any way.... 'God will forgive you, Maksim Andreitch, said the peasants thickly with one voice, and they took off their caps; 'do you forgive us!
But wherewith can they be replaced when one is at the age of Maksim Maksimych? Do what you will, the heart hardens and the soul shrinks in upon itself. I departed alone. I LEARNED not long ago that Pechorin had died on his way back from Persia.
Gallop off to our Moscow estate," he said to the factotum who appeared at his call. "Hurry off and tell Maksim, the gardener, to set the serfs to work. Say that everything out of the hothouses must be brought here well wrapped up in felt. I must have two hundred pots here on Friday."
"The next day he immediately despatched an express messenger to Kizlyar to purchase some things for him. The messenger brought back a quite innumerable quantity of various Persian stuffs. "'What think you, Maksim Maksimych? he said to me, showing the presents. 'Will our Asiatic beauty hold out against such a battery as this? "'You don't know the Circassian women, I answered.
At last he lay down, but for a long time he kept coughing, spitting, and tossing about. "The bugs are biting you, are they not?" I asked. "Yes, that is it," he answered, with a heavy sigh. I woke early the next morning, but Maksim Maksimych had anticipated me. I found him sitting on the little bench at the gate.
'No, sir, he's still alive but as good as dead; his arms and legs are crushed. I was running for Seliverstitch, for the doctor. Ardalion Mihalitch told the constable to gallop to the village for Seliverstitch, while he himself pushed on at a quick trot to the clearing.... I followed him. We found poor Maksim on the ground. The peasants were standing about him. We got off our horses.
It was already late and dark when I opened the window again and began to call Maksim Maksimych, saying that it was time to go to bed. He muttered something through his teeth. I repeated my invitation he made no answer.
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