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Updated: June 26, 2025
"God forbid! How could such a thing happen. Who ever imagined such nonsense?" "Granny," laughed Raisky. Happily "Granny" had not heard the words. Marfinka was embarrassed, and looked out of the window. "Here I have everything I want, the lovely flowers in the garden, the birds. Who would look after the birds? I will never go away from here, never!" "But Granny wants to go and take you with her."
Even while he abandoned himself to the new impressions which nature, art, and a different race made on his mind, Raisky found that the dearest and nearest ties still connected him with Tatiana Markovna, Vera and Marfinka.
"Do you know Marfinka?" he asked. "Yes." "And Vera?" "Vera too." "Where have you met my cousins? You do not come to the house." "At church." "At church? But they say you never look inside a church." "I don't exactly remember where I have seen them, in the village, in the field." Raisky concluded his guest was a drunkard, as he drunk down glass after glass of punch. Mark guessed his thoughts.
"Do you like mushrooms too, Cousin?" asked Marfinka. "Because we have so many." "Rather! Can't we have them for supper tonight?" In spite of Tiet Nikonich's caution against this heavy food, Tatiana Markovna sent Marfinka to Peter and to the cook to order mushrooms for supper. "If there is any champagne in the cellar, Granny, let us have a bottle up.
Raisky laughed and said, "She is a saint nevertheless, whatever you may find to say about her." "A saint perhaps, but nothing is right for her. Her world is in her two nieces, and who knows how they will turn out? Marfinka plays with her canaries and her flowers, and the other sits in the corner like the family ghost, and not a word can be got from her. We shall see what will become of her."
Veroshka and Marfinka play here under my eyes, in the sand. One cannot trust any nurse." They reached the yard. "Kirusha, Eromka, Matroshka, where have you all hidden yourselves? One of you come here." Matroshka appeared, and announced that Kirusha and Eromka had gone into the village to fetch the peasants. "Here is Matroshka. Do you remember her? What are you staring there for, fool.
In her manner and her words to Tushin he saw simplicity, trust, gentleness and affection such as she showed to no one else, not even to her aunt or to Marfinka. "She is on her guard with her Grandmother," he thought, "and takes no heed of Marfinka. But when she looks at Tushin, speaks to him, or gives her hand it is plain to see that they are friends."
But within a couple of hours after their arrival they had become quiet and timid, for their gaiety had aroused a melancholy echo, as in an empty house. A mist lay on everything. Even the birds had ceased to fly to the spot where Marfinka fed them; swallows, starlings and all the feathered inhabitants of the park were gone, and not a stork was to be seen flying over the Volga.
Vera looked round the company, thanking Raisky by a friendly glance, and Marfinka hid behind her aunt. "What a confession! You admitted this Barabbas under your roof," said Niel Andreevich. "Not I, Niel Andreevich. Borushka brought him in at night, and I did not even know who was sleeping in his room." "You go round with him at night?
"Grandmother must have her finger in everything. I am not proud. In what connection did she say I was?" "Because I have made a gift of these houses and gardens to you and Marfinka. She said that you would not accept the gift. Is that true? Marfinka has accepted on the condition that you do not refuse.
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