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Updated: June 28, 2025
'Sophia Nikolaevna is a reasonable, kind-hearted girl.... Yes, she is a kind-hearted girl. She felt awkward at first, but she was soon at ease. But our whole conversation only lasted five minutes. 'And you ... told her everything ... about me ... everything? 'I told her what was necessary. 'I shall never be able to go and see them again now! I pronounced dejectedly.... 'Why?
He was in a calm and tranquil state of mind; he readily gave in to her, and when Varvara Nikolaevna that was the name of his friend decided to take him to the Crimea, he agreed, though he had a presentiment that no good would come of the trip. They reached Sevastopol in the evening and stopped at an hotel to rest and go on the next day to Yalta. They were both exhausted by the journey.
Must one believe that some faults in a man conceit, for instance, or frivolity are essential to gain a woman's devotion? Or does love fear perfection, the perfection possible on earth, as something strange and terrible? Sophia Nikolaevna heard me to the end, without taking her stern, searching eyes off me, without moving her lips; only her eyebrows contracted from time to time.
I felt all of a sudden so uncomfortable and so ashamed that I hid my face in my hands. I realised all the impropriety, all the baseness of my behaviour, and, choked with shame and remorse, I stood as it were in disgrace. 'Mercy, I thought, 'what I've done! 'Anton Nikititch, I heard the maid-servant saying in the outer-room, 'get a glass of water, quick, for Sophia Nikolaevna.
While Darya Pavlovna was speaking, she listened, pressing her lips superciliously. But what struck me most was the expression of Lizaveta Nikolaevna from the moment Darya Pavlovna had come in. There was a gleam of hatred and hardly disguised contempt in her eyes. "Wait one minute, Praskovya Ivanovna, I beg you." Varvara Petrovna detained her, still with the same exaggerated composure.
'But tell me, has he not taken vengeance on that Turkish aga? Bersenyev smiled 'Revenge is only to be found in novels, Elena Nikolaevna; and, besides, in twelve years that aga may well be dead. 'Mr. Insarov has never said anything, though, to you about it? 'No, never. 'Why did he go to Sophia? 'His father used to live there. Elena grew thoughtful. 'To liberate one's country! she said.
Levin asked her, when she had followed him into the corridor. "He has begun picking at himself," said Marya Nikolaevna. "How do you mean?" "Like this," she said, tugging at the folds of her woolen skirt. Levin noticed, indeed, that all that day the patient pulled at himself, as it were, trying to snatch something away. Marya Nikolaevna's prediction came true.
'And will you be perfectly contented with such a position? asked Elena, leaning on her elbow and looking him straight in the face. 'Perfectly, Elena Nikolaevna, perfectly. What could be a finer vocation? To follow, perhaps, in the steps of Timofay Nikolaevitch ... The very thought of such work fills me with delight and confusion ... yes, confusion... which comes from a sense of my own deficiency.
You, I hope, will do me the justice to allow that I do not belong to the number of those peres de famille who are mad for position; but you yourself told me that Elena Nikolaevna likes practical business men; Yegor Andreyevitch is in the first place a business man; now on the other side, my daughter has a weakness for generous actions; so let me tell you that Yegor Andreyevitch, directly he had attained the possibility you understand me the possibility of living without privation on his salary, at once gave up the yearly income assigned him by his father, for the benefit of his brothers.
But the princess, having ascertained from the visitors' list that this was Nikolay Levin and Marya Nikolaevna, explained to Kitty what a bad man this Levin was, and all her fancies about these two people vanished. Not so much from what her mother told her, as from the fact that it was Konstantin's brother, this pair suddenly seemed to Kitty intensely unpleasant.
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