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Rudin's sudden, and wholly unexplained, departure had taken a great load off her heart, but she had expected tears, and hysterics.... Natalya's outward composure threw her out of her reckoning again. 'Well, child, began Darya Mihailovna, 'how are you to-day? Natalya looked at her mother. 'He is gone, you see... your hero. Do you know why he decided on going so quickly?
'Yes! youth! he continued, 'the whole aim of science is to reach consciously what is bestowed on youth for nothing. Natalya looked attentively at Rudin; she did not understand him. 'I have been talking all this morning with your mother, he went on; 'she is an extraordinary woman. I understand why all our poets sought her friendship. Are you fond of poetry? he added, after a pause.
It was, as I well knew, useless to argue with Anne; so I went on with my ambulance work in grim silence, keeping near her, and letting the others go to and fro, helping the wounded into shelter and carrying away the dead. Natalya had run out also and joined her mistress. Yossof was not at hand; it was he whom we expected to bring the news we were awaiting so eagerly.
Natalya Alexyevna, tell me! Natalya could scarcely draw her breath. 'You see I have come here, she uttered, at last 'No, say that you love me! 'I think yes, she whispered. Rudin pressed her hands still more warmly, and tried to draw her to him. Natalya looked quickly round. 'Let me go I am frightened.... I think some one is listening to us.... For God's sake, be on your guard.
How grateful I am to the baron for having made me acquainted with you! And Darya Mihailovna held out her hand to Rudin. He first pressed it, then raised it to his lips and went away to the drawing-room and from there to the terrace. On the terrace he met Natalya. Darya Mihailovna's daughter, Natalya Alexyevna, at a first glance might fail to please.
'Can it be, Dmitri Nikolaitch, Natalya interrupted him, 'you expect nothing from life? 'Oh, no! I expect much, but not for myself.... Usefulness, the content that comes from activity, I shall never renounce; but I have renounced happiness. My hopes, my dreams, and my own happiness have nothing in common. Besides, it is for youth to win love; I am too old. How could I turn any one's head?
But the hand, evidently, did not feel that the tears were dropping upon it: it remained motionless, and the skin did not tremble from the fall of the tears. After the prayer Natalya became unconscious and a day later she died, without saying another word she died just as quietly as she had lived.
But we will talk about her character later.... How could you let things come to such a pass that she gave up sending you your dinner? And that I O U? You must have been mad to sign an I O U. And that promise of marriage when her daughter, Natalya Yegorovna, was alive?... I know all about it! But I see that's a delicate matter and I am an ass; forgive me.
Before supper they read a list: since August up to today Natalya Gavrilovna has collected eight thousand roubles, besides corn. Thank God.... What I think is that if our mistress does take trouble for the salvation of her soul, she will soon collect a lot. There are plenty of rich people here." Dismissing Alexey, I put out the light and drew the bedclothes over my head.
Natalya went hot and cold. It was not only that little Joseph had gone to this creature. It was not even that he had accepted her maternity. It was this word 'mamma' that stung. The word summed up all the blasphemous foreignness of the new domesticity. 'Mamma' was redolent of cold Christian houses in whose doorways the old clo'-woman sometimes heard it.
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