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She had ordered the carriage, and had driven out alone for a breath of fresh air "according to the habit of the past, as she had forgotten for the last eight days what it meant to breathe fresh air." "Alone, or with Darya Pavlovna?"
"All my things are at your service, dearest auntie. If you permit, I can show some patterns to your maid. I have a woman with me from Paris a wonderfully clever dressmaker." "You are very good, my dear. But, really, I am ashamed"... "Ashamed!" repeated Varvara Pavlovna reproachfully. "If you want to make me happy, dispose of me as if I were your property." Marya Dmitrievna was completely melted.
Lavretsky wrote to his wife that he needed no answer... but he waited, he thirsted for a reply, for an explanation of this incredible, inconceivable thing. Varvara Pavlovna wrote him the same day a long letter in French. It put the finishing touch; his last doubts vanished, and he began to feel ashamed that he had still had any doubt left.
Varvara Pavlovna was now "a celebrity." Lavretsky ceased to follow her movements. But it was long before he could master his own feelings.
They sang through the duet in an undertone, and Varvara Pavlovna corrected him several times as they did so, then they sang it aloud, and then twice repeated the performance of Mira la bianca lu-u-na. Varvara Pavlovna's voice had lost its freshness, but she managed it with great skill.
And in those days I was afraid he was turning your head. 'No, replied Alexandra Pavlovna naively, 'he always seemed too learned for me. I was afraid of him, and never knew what to say in his presence. But wasn't Pigasov nasty in his ridicule of him to-day? 'Pigasov? responded Lezhnyov. 'That was just why I stood up for Rudin so warmly, because Pigasov was here.
My father used to say that if all the Russians were like the Parphens, there would be no trouble between Gentiles and Jews; and Fedora Pavlovna, the landlady, would reply that the Russian people were not to blame. It was the priests, she said, who taught the people to hate the Jews. Of course she knew best, as she was a very pious Christian. She never passed a church without crossing herself.
Foma wrinkled his face, for the dust filled his eyes, and thought: "If it is a woman I meet now then it will mean that Sophya Pavlovna will receive me in a friendly way, as before. I am going to see her tomorrow. And if it is a man I won't go tomorrow, I'll wait." But it was a dog that came to meet him, and this irritated Foma to such an extent that he felt like striking him with his cane.
Besides, I am doubtful, I must confess, whether my visit could afford you any pleasure. 'Oh, no! why? Pandalevsky sighed and dropped his eyes expressively. 'Good-bye, Alexandra Pavlovna! he said after a slight pause; then he bowed and turned back. Alexandra Pavlovna turned round and went home. Konstantin Diomiditch, too, walked homewards.
"Well, what am I to do? Ought I to vanish?" Mary Pavlovna smiled her sweet, childlike smile, and said, "Yes, partly." "How is one to vanish partly?" "I am talking nonsense. I am not competent to judge in such affairs, you know, still I believe that on his part it is the most ordinary man's feeling, though it is masked.
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