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He declared, further, that he had intended to go every day, but had always been prevented by circumstances; but that now he would promise himself the pleasure however far it was, he would find them out. And so Ivan Petrovitch REALLY knew Natalia Nikitishna! what a saintly nature was hers! and Martha Nikitishna! Ivan Petrovitch must excuse him, but really he was not quite fair on dear old Martha.
'You will not be angry with me, ideal Zoya Nikitishna; you would not drive me to the dark depths of hopeless despair. And I can't talk to you seriously, because I'm not a serious person. The young girl shrugged her shoulders, and turned to Bersenyev. 'There, he's always like that; he treats me like a child; and I am eighteen. I am grown-up now.
'Nikolai Eremyitch, mistress wants you. 'Who's with the mistress? he asked the page. 'Aksinya Nikitishna, and a merchant from Venev. 'I'll be there this minute. And you, mates, he continued in a persuasive voice, 'better move off out of here with the newly-appointed stoker; if the German pops in, he'll make a complaint for certain.
The boatmen looked at one another and grinned in silence. 'Eh? said Shubin, turning to them, 'the gentlefolks can't sing, you say? The boy in the print shirt only shook his head. 'Wait a little snubnose, retorted Shubin, 'we will show you. Zoya Nikitishna, sing us Le lac of Niedermeyer.
At the door, above a visiting card nailed on all askew, there was a bell-handle to be seen, and in the hall the visitors were met by some one, not exactly a servant, nor exactly a companion, in a cap unmistakable tokens of the progressive tendencies of the lady of the house. Sitnikov inquired whether Avdotya Nikitishna was at home.
At last he snatched her fingers, and squeezed them so tightly that she shrieked, and for a long time afterwards breathed on her hand, pretending to be angry, while he murmured something in her ears. 'Mischievous things, young people, Anna Vassilyevna observed gaily to Uvar Ivanovitch. He flourished his fingers in reply. 'What a girl Zoya Nikitishna is! said Bersenyev to Elena. 'And Shubin?
'Arrived yesterday evening, I'm told. I offered him a room here, but he refused. He seems a very nice fellow, though. 'Has he been long with you? 'About an hour. He asked me to introduce him to Olimpiada Nikitishna. 'And did you introduce him? 'Of course. 'And Lizaveta Kirillovna, too, did he ... 'He made her acquaintance, too, of course. I was silent for a space.
My head aches to-day. Shubin again turned his eyes up to the ceiling; Zoe responded with a half-smile. This Zoe, or, to speak more precisely, Zoya Nikitishna Mueller, was a pretty, fair-haired, half-Russian German girl, with a little nose rather wide at the end, and tiny red lips.
The small gentleman's house in the Moscow style, in which Avdotya Nikitishna, otherwise Evdoksya, Kukshin, lived, was in one of the streets of X , which had been lately burnt down; it is well known that our provincial towns are burnt down every five years.
'Hey! cried Shubin suddenly in a low voice, 'Zoya Nikitishna is on the lookout, it seems. I will go to her. Elena Nikolaevna despises me now, while you, Andrei Petrovitch, she esteems, which comes to the same thing. I am going; I'm tired of being glum.
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