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"Lef Nicolaievitch!" cried Parfen, before he had reached the next landing. "Have you got that cross you bought from the soldier with you?" "Yes, I have," and the prince stopped again. "Show it me, will you?" A new fancy! The prince reflected, and then mounted the stairs once more. He pulled out the cross without taking it off his neck. "Give it to me," said Parfen. "Why? do you "
Petersburg, and by ten o'clock he had rung the bell at Rogojin's. He had gone to the front door, and was kept waiting a long while before anyone came. At last the door of old Mrs. Rogojin's flat was opened, and an aged servant appeared. "Parfen Semionovitch is not at home," she announced from the doorway. "Whom do you want?" "Parfen Semionovitch." "He is not in."
"Do you know the Rogojins?" asked his questioner, abruptly. "No, I don't not at all! I hardly know anyone in Russia. Why, is that your name?" "Yes, I am Rogojin, Parfen Rogojin." "Parfen Rogojin? dear me then don't you belong to those very Rogojins, perhaps " began the clerk, with a very perceptible increase of civility in his tone.
Akim Danilitch is coming, and he'll give it to you! You here, Parfen? A blind man, and at his age too! Can't see, but he must be like other people and won't do what he's told. Smirnov, put his name down!" "Yes, sir! And shall I write down the men from Purov's? That man there with the swollen cheek, he's from Purov's works." "Don't put down the men from Purov's. It's Purov's birthday to-morrow."
"Look here, Parfen; if you love her so much, surely you must be anxious to earn her respect? And if you do so wish, surely you may hope to? I said just now that I considered it extraordinary that she could still be ready to marry you. Well, though I cannot yet understand it, I feel sure she must have some good reason, or she wouldn't do it.
You astonish me!" "All this is mere jealousy it is some malady of yours, Parfen! You exaggerate everything," said the prince, excessively agitated. "What are you doing?" "Let go of it!" said Parfen, seizing from the prince's hand a knife which the latter had at that moment taken up from the table, where it lay beside the history. Parfen replaced it where it had been.
This is a conviction which I have gained while I have been in this Russia of ours. Yes, Parfen! there is work to be done; there is work to be done in this Russian world! Remember what talks we used to have in Moscow! And I never wished to come here at all; and I never thought to meet you like this, Parfen! Well, well good-bye good-bye! God be with you!" He turned and went downstairs.
"Parfen Denisitch now, for all he was no scholar, he died a death that God grant every one of us the like," she said, referring to a servant who had died recently. "Took the sacrament and all." "That's not what I mean," said he. "I mean that I'm acting for my own advantage. It's all the better for me if the peasants do their work better."
You didn't return it to me next day. Haven't you got it on now?" "Yes, I have," said Rogojin. "Come along, then. I don't wish to meet my new year without you my new life, I should say, for a new life is beginning for me. Did you know, Parfen, that a new life had begun for me?" "I see for myself that it is so and I shall tell HER. But you are not quite yourself, Lef Nicolaievitch."
You were thinking, 'How can she marry him after this? How can it possibly be permitted? Oh, I know what you were thinking about!" "I didn't come here for that purpose, Parfen. That was not in my mind " "That may be! Perhaps you didn't COME with the idea, but the idea is certainly there NOW! Ha, ha! well, that's enough! What are you upset about? Didn't you really know it all before?
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