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Updated: June 18, 2025
I read him French books of the last century, the memoirs of Saint Simon, of Mably, Renal, Helvetius, Voltaire's correspondence, the encyclopedists, of course without understanding a word, even when, with a smile and a grimace, he ordered me, 'relire ce dernier paragraphe, qui est bien remarquable! Ivan Matveitch was completely a Frenchman.
In face Semyon Matveitch was like his brother, only he was shorter and stouter, and had a round bald head, bright black eyes, like Ivan Matveitch's, only more prominent, and full red lips.
'Michel is locked up by my orders, and this is I! answered a voice, which seemed to rend my heart... Before me stood Semyon Matveitch! I was rushing to escape, but he clutched at my arm. 'Where are you off to, vile hussy? he hissed. 'You 're quite equal to stolen interviews with young fools, so you'll have to be equal to the consequences.
Semyon Matveitch walked to and fro again, and standing still patted me lightly on the arm, on the very arm which still ached from his violence, and was for long after marked with blue bruises. 'To be sure, he began again, 'we're headstrong... just a little headstrong!
They say all persons in power, as they grow old, are readily caught by that bait, the bait of exclusive personal devotion.... Semyon Matveitch had good reason to call Mr. Ratsch his Araktcheev.... He might well have called him another name too. 'You're not one to make difficulties, he used to say to him.
Ratsch, your stepfather, has already received from me the necessary instructions. To which I must add that your attractive exterior seems to me a pledge of the excellence of your sentiments. Semyon Matveitch went off into a thin chuckle, while I... I was not offended exactly... but I suddenly felt very sorry for myself... and at that moment I fully realised how utterly forsaken and alone I was.
I was among those invited. From the town to Gornostaevka was reckoned between seven and eight miles. Kirilla Matveitch offered me a seat in his coach; but I refused.... In the same way children, who have been punished, wishing to pay their parents out, refuse their favourite dainties at table. Besides, I felt that my presence would be felt as a constraint by Liza. Bizmyonkov took my place.
'Has he come here for long, do you know? 'Yes, I believe he has to be here for a fortnight. And Kirilla Matveitch hurried away to dress. I walked several times up and down the drawing-room.
He began to speak... and his voice went straight to my heart.... A manly and soft voice, and in every sound such a true, honest nature! Semyon Matveitch was delighted at his son's arrival, embraced him, but at once asked, 'For a fortnight, eh? On leave, eh? and sent me away. I sat a long while at my window, and gazed at the lights flitting to and fro in the rooms of the big house.
Ah, God, spare others from knowing aught of such feelings! Every day I read to Ivan Matveitch, sometimes for three or four hours together.... So much reading in such a loud voice was harmful to me. Our doctor was anxious about my lungs and even once communicated his fears to Ivan Matveitch.
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