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'I think, Musa Pavlovna, I observed, 'that you are exaggerating a little. Knowing the character of Paramon Semyonitch, I should have felt sure beforehand that he would sympathise with every ... sincere impulse; but, on the other hand, I have always regarded him as a man of sense.... Surely he cannot fail to realise all the impracticability, all the absurdity of conspiracies in Russia?
She added that she intended to remain where his body lay at rest, and to go on with the work he had bequeathed her, since such was the last wish of Paramon Semyonitch, and that was her only law. Since then I have heard no more of Musa.
'Yes, I was there, whispered Musa, without any change of countenance, except that her nostrils were faintly quivering and her lips twitching. 'Yes, and if Paramon Semyonitch asks me what I am whispering about with you, I'd tell him this minute. What do I care? 'Be more careful, I besought her. 'I really believe they are noticing. 'I tell you, I'm quite ready to tell them everything.
I felt melancholy, and yet I was glad that chance had enabled me to pay my last respects to my old friend.... 'May I go with you, Paramon Semyonitch? 'You may.... I was following him alone; now there'll be two of us. Our walk lasted more than an hour. My companion moved forward, without lifting his eyes or opening his lips.
Musa went with him. 'Paramon Semyonitch did not wish it, she wrote to me; 'as, according to his ideas, no one ought to sacrifice self for another person, and not for a cause; but I told him there was no question of sacrifice at all. When I said to him in Moscow that I would be his wife, I thought to myself for ever, indissolubly! So indissoluble it must be till the end of our days....
'Where do you live, Paramon Semyonitch? Let me come and see you. I had no idea you were living in Petersburg. We could recall old days, and talk of our dead friend. Baburin did not answer me at once. 'It's two years since I found my way to Petersburg, he observed at last; 'I live at the very end of the town. However, if you really care to visit me, come. He gave me his address.
But I want to tell you this: when I was abandoned, and was like one lost, and was only waiting for God to take me, or to pluck up spirit to make an end of myself, once more, just as in Voronezh, I met with Paramon Semyonitch and he saved me once again.... Not a word that could wound me did I hear from him, not a word of reproach; he asked nothing of me I was not worthy of that; but he loved me ... and I became his wife.
'Ungrateful girl! he groaned; 'who was it gave you food and drink, clothed you, and brought you up? who cared for you, would have given all his life, all his soul ... And you have forgotten it all? To cast me off, truly, were no great matter, but Paramon Semyonitch, Paramon ... I begged him to sit down, to rest. Punin shook his head. 'No, I won't. I have come to you ... I don't know what for.
'Paramon Semyonitch is worried about something, I said at last. 'Oh, you noticed it? Musa sighed. 'He cannot help being worried. 'Why should you imagine you cannot rely upon me? 'Well, you are in the government service you are an official. 'Well, what of that? 'You are, consequently, loyal to the government. I marvelled inwardly ... at Musa's innocence.
And with even greater cruelty than our little lady! From his earliest childhood nothing but struggling! And, in fact, I will confess that, inspired by Ruban, I composed in allusion to this fact a stanza for the portrait of Paramon Semyonitch. Wait a bit ... how was it? Yes! 'E'en from the cradle fate's remorseless blows Baburin drove towards the abyss of woes!
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