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Updated: June 6, 2025
Are you just the same as when I met you first, six weeks ago? No, Natalya Alexyevna, your heart is not free. 'Perhaps not, answered Natalya, hardly audibly, 'but all the same you are mistaken. 'How is that? asked Rudin. 'Let me go! don't question me! replied Natalya, and with swift steps she turned towards the house.
Her voice was sweet, but it sounded to Natalya like the voice of Lilith, stealer of new-born children. Her rosy cheek seemed smeared with seductive paint. In the background glistened the dual crockery of the erst pious kitchen which the new-comer profaned. And between Natalya and it, between Natalya and her grandchildren, this alien girlish figure seemed to stand barrier-wise.
Every one in the house was very much surprised to hear of his intentions; even the servants looked at him with a puzzled air. Bassistoff did not conceal his sorrow. Natalya evidently avoided Rudin. She tried not to meet his eyes. He succeeded, however, in slipping his note into her hand.
'I understand you, Natalya Alexyevna, but it is not so easy for a man to find such a support. 'I should think the sympathy of others... in any case isolation always.... Natalya was rather confused, and flushed a little. 'And what will you do in the country in the winter? she added hurriedly. 'What shall I do? I shall finish my larger essay you know it on "Tragedy in Life and in Art."
In matters of business she was really guided by the advice of her bailiff an elderly, one-eyed Little Russian, a good-natured and crafty old rogue. 'What is old is fat, what is new is thin, he used to say, with a quiet smile, winking his solitary eye. Next to Darya Mihailovna, it was Natalya to whom Rudin used to talk most often and at most length.
During twenty-one weeks of this time she was employed in a Wooster Street factory, earning for a week of nine-and-a-half-hour days only $3.50. Katia, like Natalya, was a "trimmer." After paying $3 a week board to an aunt, she had a surplus of 50 cents for all clothing, recreation, doctor's bills, and incidentals. To save carfare she walked to her work about forty minutes' distance.
Natalya stopped. 'Wait here, Masha, by the pines, she said, and went on to the pond. Rudin went up to her; he stopped short in amazement. He had never seen such an expression on her face before. Her brows were contracted, her lips set, her eyes looked sternly straight before her. 'Dmitri Nikolaitch, she began, 'we have no time to lose. I have come for five minutes.
"Mother? She is gone with Olga Kirillovna to a rehearsal of the play. The day after tomorrow they will have a performance. And they will take me, too. . . . And will you go?" "H'm! . . . When is she coming back?" "She said she would be back in the evening." "And where is Natalya?"
Half-way along, a woman, huddled in the roadway, clutched at me, with a moaning cry. I shook off her grasp, glanced at her, and saw she was Natalya. The faithful soul had not been able to follow her mistress far. "Where have they taken her?" I cried.
But the day before yesterday, do you remember how There, we will pass that over. It is all over and buried and forgotten. Isn't it? Come, I know you again now; but I was altogether puzzled then. There, kiss me like a sensible girl! Natalya lifted Darya Mihailovna's hand to her lips, and Darya Mihailovna kissed her stooping head. 'Always listen to my advice.
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