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Updated: June 19, 2025
'You were asleep and missed the abrek, didn't you? Suppose he had done for you it would have been all the better. 'You'd have howled, I expect, said Nazarka, laughing. 'Howled! A likely thing. 'Just look, she doesn't care. She'd howl, Nazarka, eh? Would she? said Ergushov. Lukishka all this time had stood silently looking at Maryanka. His gaze evidently confused the girl. 'Well, Maryanka!
'And my Lukashka is at the cordon; they won't let him come home, said the visitor, though the cornet's wife had known all this long ago. She wanted to talk about her Lukashka whom she had lately fitted out for service in the Cossack regiment, and whom she wished to marry to the cornet's daughter, Maryanka. 'So he's at the cordon? 'He is. Mother. He's not been home since last holidays.
In spite of the Cossack's entreaties to wait another minute to hear what he had to say, Maryanka did not stop. 'Go, she cried, 'you'll be seen! I do believe that devil, our lodger, is walking about the yard. 'Cornet's daughter, thought Lukashka. 'She will marry me. Marriage is all very well, but you just love me!
He noticed everything, and having let the old men pass ahead he turned back to the hut where Maryanka was preparing for bed. He went up to her and wished to say something, but his voice broke. She moved away from him, sat down cross-legged on her bed in the corner, and looked at him silently with wild and frightened eyes. She was evidently afraid of him. Olenin felt this.
'What are you standing in the light for, you devil! the girl suddenly shouted. 'Why don't you pass me the decanter! Having filled the decanter with cool red wine, Maryanka handed it to Vanyusha. 'Give the money to Mother, she said, pushing away the hand in which he held the money. Vanyusha laughed.
'What are you crying for? What is it? 'What? she repeated in a rough voice. 'Cossacks have been killed, that's what for. 'Lukashka? said Olenin. 'Go away! What do you want? 'Maryanka! said Olenin, approaching her. 'You will never get anything from me! 'Maryanka, don't speak like that, Olenin entreated. 'Get away.
Maryanka with bowed head, striking the pales of the fences with a switch, was walking with rapid regular strides straight towards him. Lukashka rose. Maryanka started and stopped. 'What an accursed devil! You frightened me! So you have not gone home? she said, and laughed aloud. Lukashka put one arm round her and with the other hand raised her face.
After drinking tea and admiring from his porch the mountains, the morning, and Maryanka, he would put on a tattered ox-hide coat, sandals of soaked raw hide, buckle on a dagger, take a gun, put cigarettes and some lunch in a little bag, call his dog, and soon after five o'clock would start for the forest beyond the village.
He loved Maryanka more than ever, and knew that he could never be loved by her. 'Well, good-bye, my lad! said Daddy Eroshka. 'When you go on an expedition, be wise and listen to my words the words of an old man. When you fellows get frightened you always try to get close together with a lot of others. You think it is merrier to be with others, but that's where it is worst of all!
Ustenka tore herself away, and swinging her arm gave him such a blow on the back that she hurt her hand. "Well, are you going to have another turn?" he asked. "The other girls may if they like," answered Ustenka, "but I am going home and Maryanka was coming to our house too." With his arm still round her, Lukashka led Maryanka away from the crowd to the darker corner of a house.
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