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When she had reached the wattle fence of her home she stopped and turned to the Cossack who was running beside her and still trying to persuade her to stay a while with him. 'Well, what do you want to say, midnight-gadabout? and she again began laughing. 'Don't laugh at me, Maryanka! By the Heaven! Well, what if I have a sweetheart? May the devil take her!
'Now we'll follow the dog, get a pheasant to settle on a tree, and then you may fire. 'Would you have made up to Maryanka? 'Attend to the dogs. I'll tell you tonight, said the old man, pointing to his favourite dog, Lyam. After a pause they continued talking, while they went about a hundred paces. Then the old man stopped again and pointed to a twig that lay across the path.
To my dear I think I will Of a shawl a present make And five kisses for it take." Lukashka and Nazarka broke into the ring and started walking about among the girls. Lukashka joined in the singing, taking seconds in his clear voice as he walked in the middle of the ring swinging his arms. 'Well, come in, one of you! he said. The other girls pushed Maryanka, but she would not enter the ring.
Granny Ulitka, the wife of the Cossack cornet who is also teacher in the regimental school, goes out to the gates of her yard like the other women, and waits for the cattle which her daughter Maryanka is driving along the street. Before she has had time fully to open the wattle gate in the fence, an enormous buffalo cow surrounded by mosquitoes rushes up bellowing and squeezes in.
And taking her by the hand he led her to the bench and sat her down beside Olenin. 'What a beauty, he said, turning her head to see it in profile. Maryanka did not resist but proudly smiling turned her long eyes towards Olenin. 'A beautiful girl, repeated Beletski. 'Yes, see what a beauty I am, Maryanka's look seemed to endorse.
"Don't go, Maryanka," he said, "let's have some fun for the last time. Go home and I will come to you!" "What am I to do at home? Holidays are meant for merrymaking. I am going to Ustenka's," replied Maryanka. 'I'll marry you all the same, you know! 'All right, said Maryanka, 'we shall see when the time comes.
Stooping down towards Maryanka, he said, 'I'll kiss, oh, how I'll kiss you! ... Maryanka's eyes met his and she suddenly blushed and stepped back. 'Oh, bother you! you'll crush my feet, she said, and bending her head looked at her well-shaped feet in their tightly fitting light blue stockings with clocks and her new red slippers trimmed with narrow silver braid.
He took hold of her head through the window and kissed her. 'Really, do open! 'Why do you talk nonsense? I've told you I won't! Have you come for long? He did not answer but went on kissing her, and she did not ask again. 'There, through the window one can't even hug you properly, said Lukashka. 'Maryanka dear! came the voice of her mother, 'who is that with you?
Although there was no escape from the heat and the mosquitoes swarmed in the cool shadow of the wagons, and her little brother tossing about beside her kept pushing her, Maryanka having drawn her kerchief over her head was just falling asleep, when suddenly their neighbour Ustenka came running towards her and, diving under the wagon, lay down beside her.
'Wait a bit, said he and reached out of the window. 'Khm, he coughed, and bellowed, 'Maryanka dear. Hallo, Maryanka, my girlie, won't you love me, darling? I'm a wag, he added in a whisper to Olenin.
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