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Updated: June 25, 2025
As soon as the judge pushed Ivan Ivanovitch, Ivan Ivanovitch with the one eye exerted all his strength, and pushed Ivan Nikiforovitch, from whom the perspiration streamed like rain-water from a roof. In spite of the fact that the friends resisted to the best of their ability, they were nevertheless brought together, for the two chief movers received reinforcements from the ranks of their guests.
Ignatius Nikiforovitch was resting in another room, and Natalie Ivanovna alone met him. She wore a tight-fitting black silk dress, with a knot of red ribbon, and her hair was done up according to the latest fashion. She was evidently making herself look young for her husband. Seeing her brother, she quickly rose from the divan, and, rustling with her silk skirt, she went out to meet him.
Have you been asleep, Ivan Ivanovitch?" "I have." "And now you have risen?" "Now I have risen. Christ be with you, Ivan Nikiforovitch! How can you sleep until this time? I have just come from the farm. There's very fine barley on the road, charming! and the hay is tall and soft and golden!" "Gorpina!" shouted Ivan Nikiforovitch, "fetch Ivan Ivanovitch some vodka, and some pastry and sour cream!"
"I've nothing to say," replied the clerk. "What things do happen!" continued the judge. He had not finished saying this before the door creaked and the front half of Ivan Nikiforovitch presented itself in the court-room; the rest of him remaining in the ante-room.
Picking out all the fine bones from the fish, he laid them on his plate; and happening to glance across the table Heavenly Creator; but this was strange! Opposite him sat Ivan Nikiforovitch. At the very same instant Ivan Nikiforovitch glanced up also No, I can do no more Give me a fresh pen with a fine point for this picture! mine is flabby.
"What was to be done? that lawsuit " At this I sighed involuntarily. Ivan Nikiforovitch observed my sigh, and said, "Do not be troubled: I have reliable information that the case will be decided next week, and in my favour." I shrugged my shoulders, and went to seek news of Ivan Ivanovitch. "Ivan Ivanovitch is here," some one said to me, "in the choir." I saw a gaunt form.
I bought it of a Turk when I joined the militia; and now, to give it away all of a sudden! Impossible! It is an indispensable article." "Indispensable for what?" "For what? What if robbers should attack the house?... Indispensable indeed! Glory to God! I know that a gun stands in my storehouse." "A fine gun that! Why, Ivan Nikiforovitch, the lock is ruined." "What do you mean by ruined?
I assume that we are all placed in a certain position, and must assume the duties that result from that position, must support those conditions of existence into which we were born, which we have inherited from our forefathers, and which we must hand over to our posterity." "I consider it my duty " "Excuse me," continued Ignatius Nikiforovitch, who would not be interrupted.
You can't get along without the devil! It's a sin! by Heaven, it's a sin, Ivan Nikiforovitch!" "What do you mean, Ivan Ivanovitch, by offering the deuce knows what kind of a sow for my gun?" "Why is she 'the deuce knows what, Ivan Nikiforovitch?" "Why? You can judge for yourself perfectly well; here's the gun, a known thing; but the deuce knows what that sow is like!
Meanwhile, the assembly awaited with impatience the decisive moment when Ivan Nikiforovitch should make his appearance and at length comply with the general desire that these worthy people should be reconciled to each other. Many were almost convinced that Ivan Nikiforovitch would not come.
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