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Sanine looked up. "Aha!" he exclaimed, as he shut the book, "what's the news?" Novikoff smiled sadly, as he took the other's hand. "Oh! nothing," he said, as he approached the window, "It's all just the same as ever it was." From where he sat Sanine could only see Novikoff's tall figure silhouetted against the evening sky, and for a long while he gazed at him without speaking.
"The fact is, I dread the inevitable," he said in a low tone, as he looked stolidly at the darkening window. "It is natural, I know, and that I can do nothing to avoid it, but yet it is awful hideous!" Novikoff, though inwardly horrified at the truth of such a statement, replied: "Death is a necessary physiological phenomenon." "What a fool!" thought Yourii, as he irritably exclaimed,
After all that he had told him, such mirth seemed strange. "Was it all put on?" he thought, as he furtively glanced at Semenoff. He shrank from such an explanation. From both carriages there was a lively interchange of wit and raillery. Novikoff jumped down and ran races through the grass with Lida.
"Do you mean to say that it wouldn't be a lucky thing for you to marry Lida?" continued Sanine merrily. "Shut up!" cried the other, staggering forward, and brandishing an old boot over Sanine's head. "Now then! Gently! Are you mad?" said Sanine sharply, as he stepped backwards. Novikoff flung the boot away in disgust, breathing hard.
Walking with officers on the boulevard, where all our young ladies are to be found at this time of day." A look of jealousy darkened his face, as Novikoff asked: "How can a girl so clever and cultivated as she waste her time with such empty-headed fools?"
Among the books which bear his name are the tragedies of Sumarokof, who imagined himself to be "the Russian Voltaire"; the amusing comedies of Von-Wisin, some of which still keep the stage; the loud-sounding odes of the courtly Derzhavin; two or three books containing the mystic wisdom of Freemasonry as interpreted by Schwarz and Novikoff; Russian translations of Richardson's "Pamela," "Sir Charles Grandison," and "Clarissa Harlowe"; Rousseau's "Nouvelle Heloise," in Russian garb; and three or four volumes of Voltaire in the original.
He became grand in his own eyes, crowned as with a shining aureole, and his sadly reproachful attitude towards Lida almost moved him to tears. Then he suddenly felt bored. Yourii went on painting, and gave him no attention whatever. Novikoff got up lazily and approached the picture. It was still unfinished, and for that reason produced the effect of a somewhat powerful sketch.
Sometimes I seem to be tongue-tied, and I express myself clumsily. Yes, that often happens." They were both silent. Yourii at last stopped by the window and took up his cap. "Let us go for a stroll," he said. "All right," Novikoff readily assented, secretly hoping, while joyful yet distressed, that he might meet Lida Sanine.
So he pursues the list of devotees; her son will tell her that Caesar summarized his conquests in this country by saying Veni, Vidi, Vici; but to her it is given to say, Veni, Videbar, Vici. On two subjects, theology and politics, Madame Novikoff was, as we have seen, passionately in earnest.
She was going to tell you herself, but, after all, it comes to the same thing." "What!" exclaimed Maria Ivanovna, drawing herself up. "Lida is going to be married!" "To whom?" "To Novikoff, of course." "Yes, but what about Sarudine?" "Oh! he can go to the devil!" exclaimed Sanine angrily. "What's that to do with you? Why meddle with other people's affairs?"
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