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Updated: June 13, 2025
What matters most is that the crowd, in our sense of the word, in the sense in which it exists now that evil will not exist then, because every man will believe and every man will know what he is living for and no one will seek moral support in the crowd. Dear Nadya, darling girl, go away! Show them all that you are sick of this stagnant, grey, sinful life. Prove it to yourself at least!"
Then Sasha helped Nadya in and covered her feet with a rug. Then he sat down beside her. "Good luck to you! God bless you!" Granny cried from the steps. "Mind you write to us from Moscow, Sasha!" "Right. Good-bye, Granny." "The Queen of Heaven keep you!" "Oh, what weather!" said Sasha. It was only now that Nadya began to cry.
Every girl hopes to get married some time. LEONÍD. But have you a suitor? NÁDYA. Not yet, sir. NÁDYA. You want to know a lot! Well, no, I needn't fib about it, I'm not in love with anybody, sir. NÁDYA. It's impossible to force the heart, sir. LEONÍD. Why? Don't you like me? NÁDYA. Well, how could I help liking you? But I'm not your equal! What sort of love is that? Clean ruin!
What of it? At your age, why shouldn't you have? LÍZA. She's reported the whole thing to the mistress. The mistress got so angry that it was awful! And now, sir, she is going to marry Nádya to that government clerk. LEONÍD. Are you sure? NÁDYA. The thing's settled, dearest master! I have to answer for last evening's sport. LEONÍD. Is mamma very angry? GAVRÍLOVNA. No one dares go near her.
He was very thin, with big eyes, long thin fingers and a swarthy bearded face, and all the same he was handsome. With the Shumins he was like one of the family, and in their house felt he was at home. And the room in which he lived when he was there had for years been called Sasha's room. Standing on the steps he saw Nadya, and went up to her. "It's nice here," he said.
LEONÍD. What are you planning to do now? NÁDYA. That's my business. LEONÍD. But, you see, it's going to be very hard for you. NÁDYA. What business is it of yours? It will be all the happier for you. LEONÍD. But why do you talk like this? NÁDYA. Because you're still a boy!... Leave me! LEONÍD. But, you see, he's such a drunken, vile fellow. NÁDYA. Oh, my God!
Nadya had heard this the year before and, she fancied, the year before that too, and she knew that Sasha could not make any other criticism, and in old days this had amused her, but now for some reason she felt annoyed. "That's all stale, and I have been sick of it for ages," she said and got up. "You should think of something a little newer."
After tea Nadya went into Sasha's room and without saying a word knelt down before an armchair in the corner and hid her face in her hands. "What is it?" asked Sasha. "I can't . . ." she said. "How I could go on living here before, I can't understand, I can't conceive! I despise the man I am engaged to, I despise myself, I despise all this idle, senseless existence."
Nadya went upstairs and saw the same bed, the same windows with naïve white curtains, and outside the windows the same garden, gay and noisy, bathed in sunshine. She touched the table, sat down and sank into thought. And she had a good dinner and drank tea with delicious rich cream; but something was missing, there was a sense of emptiness in the rooms and the ceilings were so low.
And waiting for the wind I said in a low voice: "I love you, Nadya!" Mercy! The change that came over Nadenka! She uttered a cry, smiled all over her face and looking joyful, happy and beautiful, held out her arms to meet the wind. And I went off to pack up. . . . That was long ago.
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