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The words simply pouring from him in a torrent, his voice now rising into a shrill scream, now sinking into a funny broken bass like the growl of a young baby tiger. And yet he was never ridiculous. I've known other mortals, and myself one of the foremost, who, under the impulse of some sudden anger, enthusiasm, or regret, have been simply figures of fun.... Markovitch was never that.
She let herself at once go to him and he half carried her to a chair near the table and exactly opposite Markovitch's window. They kissed "like people who had been starving all their lives." Markovitch was trembling so that he was afraid lest he should tumble or make some noise. The two figures in the chair were like statues in their immobile, relentless, unswerving embrace.
The Colonel moved his chair impatiently and drowned the other's words with his detestable metallic voice. At last the door opened and Ivan Markovitch came out of the study; there were patches of red on his lean shaven face. "Come along," he said, taking Sasha by the hand. "Come and speak frankly from your heart. Without pride, my dear boy, humbly and from your heart." Sasha went into the study.
Markovitch and I understand one another. We trust one another. He is a simple fellow, but I trust him." "Do you remember," I said, "that the other day at the Jews' Market you told me the story of the man who tortured his friend, until the man shot him simply because he was tired of life and too proud to commit suicide. Why did you tell me that story?" "Did I tell it you?" he asked indifferently.
That Tuesday night poor young Bohun will remember to his grave and beyond it, I expect. He came in from his work about six in the evening and found Markovitch and Semyonov sitting in the dining-room. Everything was ordinary enough. Semyonov was in the armchair reading a newspaper; Markovitch was walking very quietly up and down the farther end of the room.
"And the other the weak, disappointed, excitable man can't you see that Semyonov has him close to his hand, that he has only to stretch a finger " "Markovitch!" cried Bohun. "Now you know," I said, "why you've got to stay on in that flat." I have said already, I think, that the instinctive motive of Vera's life was her independent pride.
The house was still, and, with that, the sense of danger and peril was redoubled, as though the house were holding its breath as it watched.... Bohun could endure it no longer; he got up, put on his dressing-gown and bedroom slippers, and went out. When he got as far as the dining-room door he saw that Markovitch was standing in the middle of the room with a lighted candle in his hand.
Do you mind if I gas a lot?" "Gas as much as you like," I said. "Well, I can't explain things unless I do.... You're sure you're not too seedy to listen?" "Not a bit. It does me good," I told him. "You see in a way you're really responsible. You remember, long ago, telling me to look after Markovitch when I talked all that rot about caring for Vera?" "Yes I remember very well indeed."
I could never understand what precisely his invention was, it had something to do with the closing of doors, something that you pulled at the bottom of the door, so that it shut softly and didn't creak with the wind. A Jew bought the invention, and gave Markovitch enough money to lead him confidently to believe that his fortune was made.
And that you couldn't love the world as a vast democratic state until you'd learnt to love your own little bit of ground, your own fields, your own river, your own church tower. Markovitch had it all as plain as plain. 'Make your own house secure and beautiful. Then it is ready to take its place in the general scheme. We Russians always begin at the wrong end, he said.
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