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But Darya Mihailovna clapped her hands crying, 'Bravo, bravo, Pigasov's beaten! and she gently took Rudin's hat from his hand. 'Defer your delight a little, madam; there's plenty of time! Pigasov began with annoyance. 'It's not sufficient to say a witty word, with a show of superiority; you must prove, refute. We had wandered from the subject of our discussion.
'Do you know, African Semenitch, began Darya Mihailovna, 'you cannot be so bitter against women for nothing. Some woman or other must have 'Done me an injury, you mean? Pigasov interrupted. Darya Mihailovna was rather embarrassed; she remembered Pigasov's unlucky marriage, and only nodded. 'One woman certainly did me an injury, said Pigasov, 'though she was a good, very good one.
'So, according to you, African Semenitch, continued Darya Mihailovna, turning to Pigasov, 'all young ladies are affected? Pigasov's mouth twitched, and he plucked nervously at his elbow. 'I say, he began in a measured voice in his most violent moods of exasperation he always spoke slowly and precisely. 'I say that young ladies, in general of present company, of course, I say nothing.
Pigasov's abilities did not rise above the level of mediocrity; patience and perseverance were his strong points, but the most powerful sentiment in him was ambition, the desire to get into good society, not to be inferior to others in spite of fortune. He had studied diligently and gone to the Dorpat University from ambition. Poverty exasperated him, and made him watchful and cunning.
In features he resembled his sister strikingly; but there was less movement and life in his expression, and his soft beautiful eyes had a melancholy look. 'Oh! nothing, answered Natalya, 'I have been listening to Pigasov's sarcasms, I have done some embroidery on canvas, and I've been reading. 'And what have you been reading? 'Oh!
He spent three years on the property he had bought himself and suddenly married a wealthy half-educated woman who was captivated by his unceremonious and sarcastic manners. But Pigasov's character had become so soured and irritable that family life was unendurable to him.
'I had heard he was eccentric, but really that was beyond everything! 'His is the same disease as Pigasov's, observed Rudin, 'the desire of being original. One affects to be a Mephistopheles the other a cynic. In all that, there is much egoism, much vanity, but little truth, little love. Indeed, there is even calculation of a sort in it.
'But that does not prevent your thinking of them, put in Darya Mihailovna. 'I say nothing of them, repeated Pigasov. 'All young ladies, in general, are affected to the most extreme point affected in the expression of their feelings. 'How did you do that? Pigasov's eyes sparkled. 'I poked her in the side with an aspen stake, from behind.
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