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I'm like one distraught; to stay at home alone is fearful; what am I to do with myself? I stand in the middle of the room, shut my eyes, and call, "Musa! Musotchka!" That's the way to go out of one's mind. But no, why am I talking nonsense? I know why I have come to you. You know, the other day you read me that thrice-accursed poem ... you remember, where there is talk of an old husband.
Under the shade of her thick, low brows her dark eyes darted to and fro elusively. There are dark, swift, flashing beetles that flit so in the heat of summer among the blades of dry grass. 'How good you are, Musa, Musotchka! cried Tarhov. 'But you must stay, you must stay a little.... We'll have the samovar in directly. 'Oh no, Vladimir Nikolaevitch! it's impossible! I must go away this minute.
'Did you notice nothing? he asked me suddenly, slily screwing up his eyes, 'while you were with us? nothing special? 'Why, was there anything to notice? I asked in my turn. Punin looked over his shoulder, as though anxious to satisfy himself that no one was listening. 'Our little beauty, Musotchka, is shortly to be a married lady! 'How so?
Musotchka ... Take note, my dear sir, this girl's name is Musa and it's not a nickname, but her real name ... Isn't that a predestination? Musotchka, I want to introduce you to Mr. ... Mr. ... 'B., I prompted. 'B., he repeated. 'Musotchka, listen! You see before you the most excellent, most delightful of young men. Fate threw us together when he was still in years of boyhood!
The girl shrugged her shoulders, and all at once, as though she had received a sudden shove, got up from her chair. 'Why, Musa, Musotchka, Tarhov expostulated plaintively. 'Stay a little! 'No, no, I can't. She went quickly to the door, took hold of the handle.... 'Well, at least, take the book! 'Another time. Tarhov rushed towards the girl, but at that instant she darted out of the room.
You must consider this: admitting that Musa's a splendid girl; but then to gain Paramon Semyonitch's affection, to be his comfort, his prop his spouse, in short! is that not the loftiest possible happiness even for such a girl? And she realises it! You should look, turn an attentive eye! In Paramon Semyonitch's presence Musotchka is all veneration, all tremor and enthusiasm!
He reproached me for not having been to see them the previous day; 'Paramon Semyonitch, said he, 'expected you, though he did declare that you would be sure not to come. And Musotchka, too, expected you. 'What? Musa Pavlovna too? I queried. 'She too. She's a charming girl we have got with us, isn't she? What do you say? 'Very charming, I assented.
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