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Updated: May 31, 2025
"But where is the girl whom you promised me?" "Here, Pelagea!" called the hostess to a wench of about eleven who was dressed in home-dyed garments and could boast of a pair of bare feet which, from a distance, might almost have been mistaken for boots, so encrusted were they with fresh mire. "Here, Pelagea! Come and show this gentleman the way." Selifan helped the girl to ascend to the box-seat.
And their sitting in the drawing-room where everything the chandeliers in their covers, the arm-chairs, and the carpet under their feet reminded them that those very people who were now looking down from their frames had once moved about, sat, drunk tea in this room, and the fact that lovely Pelagea was moving noiselessly about was better than any story.
You must go this minute into the kitchen and tell him to go away! This very minute! And to-morrow I'll tell Pelagea that she must not dare to demean herself by such proceedings! When I am dead you may allow immorality in your house, but you shan't do it now! . . . Please go!" "Damn it," grumbled Gagin, annoyed. "Consider with your microscopic female brain, what am I to go for?"
You arrange meetings at restaurants. And mother does not know?" "No-o. . . . How should she know? Pelagea would not tell her for anything, you know. The day before yesterday he gave us some pears. As sweet as jam! I ate two." "H'm! . . . Well, and I say . . Listen. Did father say anything about me?" "About you? What shall I say?"
They were both taken for the night to a big room where there stood two old wooden beds decorated with carvings, and in the corner was an ivory crucifix. The big cool beds, which had been made by the lovely Pelagea, smelt agreeably of clean linen. Ivan Ivanovitch undressed in silence and got into bed. "Lord forgive us sinners!" he said, and put his head under the quilt.
"I have not seen you for a long time, Yegor Vlassitch..." said Pelagea looking tenderly at the huntsman's moving shoulders. "I have not seen you since you came into our hut at Easter for a drink of water... you came in at Easter for a minute and then God knows how... drunk... you scolded and beat me and went away... I have been waiting and waiting... I've tired my eyes out looking for you.
Upon my soul, before you have time to look round, old age is upon you.... Then it is too late to live! That's how it is, Pelagea Ivanovna.... We mustn't sit still and be silent...." At that point supper was brought out from the kitchen. Uncle went into the lodge with us, and to keep us company ate five curd fritters and the wing of a duck. He ate and looked at us.
"Basile, I shall faint! . . ." Gagin cursed, put on his slippers, cursed again, and set off to the kitchen. It was as dark as the inside of a barrel, and the assistant procurator had to feel his way. He groped his way to the door of the nursery and waked the nurse. "Vassilissa," he said, "you took my dressing-gown to brush last night where is it?" "I gave it to Pelagea to brush, sir."
But good-bye, I've been chattering long enough.... I must be at Boltovo by the evening." Yegor rose, stretched himself, and slung his gun over his shoulder; Pelagea got up. "And when are you coming to the village?" she asked softly. "I have no reason to, I shall never come sober, and you have little to gain from me drunk; I am spiteful when I am drunk. Good-bye!" "Good-bye, Yegor Vlassitch."
"What carelessness! You take it away and don't put it back now I've to go without a dressing-gown!" On reaching the kitchen, he made his way to the corner in which on a box under a shelf of saucepans the cook slept. "Pelagea," he said, feeling her shoulder and giving it a shake, "Pelagea! Why are you pretending? You are not asleep! Who was it got in at your window just now?"
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