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Nedopyuskin had a wife, thin and consumptive; he had children too; luckily they all died young except Tihon and a daughter, Mitrodora, nicknamed 'the merchants' belle, who, after many painful and ludicrous adventures, was married to a retired attorney. Mr.
A great commotion followed; the officials came and put seals on the property. The relations arrived; the will was opened and read; and they called for Nedopyuskin: Nedopyuskin made his appearance. The greater number of the party knew the nature of Tihon Ivanitch's duties in his patron's household; he was greeted with deafening shouts and ironical congratulations.
Masha flitted into the other room, fetched the guitar, flung off the shawl from her shoulders, seated herself quickly, and, raising her head, began singing a gypsy song. Her voice rang out, vibrating like a glass bell when it is struck; it flamed up and died away.... It filled the heart with sweetness and pain.... Tchertop-hanov fell to dancing. Nedopyuskin stamped and swung his legs in tune.
'The landowner; here is the new owner! shouted the other heirs. 'Well, really this, put in one, a noted wit and humourist; 'well, really this, one may say... this positively is... really what one may call... an heir-apparent! and they all went off into shrieks. For a long while Nedopyuskin could not believe in his good fortune.
'Lovely weather we are having just now, resumed Nedopyuskin, and he looked gratefully at me as though I were in some way responsible for the weather: 'the corn, one may say, is doing wonderfully. I nodded in token of assent. We were silent again.
Tihon Ivanitch Nedopyuskin could not, like Panteley Eremyitch, pride himself on his origin. His father came of the peasant proprietor class, and only after forty years of service attained the rank of a noble. Mr. Nedopyuskin, the father, belonged to the number of those people who are pursued by misfortune with an obduracy akin to personal hatred.
His health had begun to fail two years before his death: he began to suffer from asthma, and was constantly dropping asleep, and on waking up could not at once come to himself; the district doctor maintained that this was the result of 'something rather like fits. During the three days which preceded Masha's departure, those three days when 'her heart was heavy, Nedopyuskin had been away at his own place at Bezselendyevka: he had been laid up with a severe cold.
'Who's that? I inquired of Yermolai. 'That? Nedopyuskin, Tihon Ivanitch. He lives at Tchertop-hanov's. 'What is he, a poor man? 'He's not rich; but, to be sure, Tchertop-hanov's not got a brass farthing either. 'Then why does he live with him? 'Oh, they made friends. One's never seen without the other.... It's a fact, indeed where the horse puts its hoof, there the crab sticks its claw.
But then a second blow fell upon him. This was the death of his bosom friend Tihon Ivanovitch Nedopyuskin.
Panteley Eremyitch, I assure you.... Tchertop-hanov came into the room. Nedopyuskin smiled, ceased speaking, and indicated him to me with a glance which seemed to say, 'There, you will see for yourself. We fell to talking about hunting. 'Would you like me to show you my leash? Tchertop-hanov asked me; and, not waiting for a reply, he called Karp.
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