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Updated: May 27, 2025
I must be stupid, I suppose. 'Haven't you forgotten your German? queried Pavel Petrovitch. 'Oh, I understand the German. Pavel Petrovitch again turned the book over in his hands, and glanced from under his brows at his brother. Both were silent. 'Oh, by the way, began Nikolai Petrovitch, obviously wishing to change the subject, 'I've got a letter from Kolyazin. 'Matvy Ilyitch? 'Yes.
The feuds arising from this cause assumed at last such proportions that the ministry in Petersburg had found it necessary to send down a trusted personage with a commission to investigate it all on the spot. The choice of the authorities fell upon Matvy Ilyitch Kolyazin, the son of the Kolyazin, under whose protection the brothers Kirsanov had once found themselves.
But, having nonplussed his subordinate, Matvy Ilyitch paid him no further attention. Our higher officials are fond as a rule of nonplussing their subordinates; the methods to which they have recourse to attain that end are rather various.
Madame Odintsov was a little older than Arkady she was twenty-nine but in her presence he felt himself a schoolboy, a little student, so that the difference in age between them seemed of more consequence. Matvy Ilyitch approached her with a majestic air and ingratiating speeches. Arkady moved away, but he still watched her; he could not take his eyes off her even during the quadrille.
Matvy Ilyitch was the real 'hero of the occasion. The marshal of nobility declared to all and each that he had come simply out of respect for him; while the Governor, even at the ball, even while he remained perfectly motionless, was still 'making arrangements. The affability of Matvy Ilyitch's demeanour could only be equalled by its dignity.
Again, I don't say that through any old-fashioned ideas; I don't in the least imagine that a man's wit lies in his feet, but Byronism is ridiculous, il a fait son temps. 'But, uncle, it's not through Byronism, I ... 'I will introduce you to the ladies here; I will take you under my wing, interrupted Matvy Ilyitch, and he laughed complacently. 'You'll find it warm, eh?
KATYA SERGYEVNA, her sister. PORFIRY PLATONITCH, her neighbor. MATVY ILYITCH KOLYAZIN, government commissioner. VIKTOR SITNIKOV, a would-be liberal. PROKOFITCH, head servant to Nikolai. DUNYASHA, a maid servant. MITYA, infant of Fedosya. TIMOFEITCH, manager for Vassily.
Matvy Ilyitch received Arkady with the good-nature, we might even call it playfulness, characteristic of the enlightened higher official. He was astonished, however, when he heard that the cousins he had invited had remained at home in the country.
Matvy Ilyitch Kolyazin, happening to be in temporary opposition, paid him a majestic visit; while the natives, with whom, however, he is very little seen, positively grovel before him. No one can so readily and quickly obtain a ticket for the court chapel, for the theatre, and such things as der Herr Baron von Kirsanoff.
'To-day's Friday, your Ex s s lency. 'Eh? What? What's Friday? What Friday? 'Friday, your Ex s s s lency, the day of the week. 'What, do you pretend to teach me, eh? Matvy Ilyitch was a higher official all the same, though he was reckoned a liberal.
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