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Having educated himself through no love for study, Pigasov knew very little thoroughly. He broke down miserably in the public disputation, while another student who had shared the same room with him, and who was constantly the subject of his ridicule, a man of very limited ability who had received a careful and solid education, gained a complete triumph.
'And as for character you have no character at all, thank God! 'What impertinence is that? 'That? It's the highest compliment, believe me. Volintsev came in and looked suspiciously at Lezhnyov and his sister. He had grown thin of late. They both began to talk to him, but he scarcely smiled in response to their jests, and looked, as Pigasov once said of him, like a melancholy hare.
Pandalevsky laughed. 'Capital! put in Rudin, 'it follows that there is no such thing as conviction according to you? 'No, it doesn't exist. 'Is that your conviction? 'Yes. 'How do you say that there are none then? Here you have one at the very first turn. All in the room smiled and looked at one another. 'One minute, one minute, but , Pigasov was beginning.
'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.
I absolutely must see you alone if only for a minute. He turned to Mlle, Boncourt 'Here, he said to her, 'this is the article you were looking for, and again bending towards Natalya, he added in a whisper, 'Try to be near the terrace in the lilac arbour about ten o'clock; I will wait for you. Pigasov was the hero of the evening. Rudin left him in possession of the field.
But nevertheless, I marvel at the fortitude of landowners who spend the winter in the country; there's so little to do that if anyone is not in one way or another engaged in intellectual work, he is inevitably bound to become a glutton or a drunkard, or a man like Turgenev's Pigasov.
How do you think he was occupied all that time? He patted the Frenchwoman on the head, gazed thoughtfully at the sky, and frequently repeated that he felt for her the tenderness of a father. The Frenchwoman went back home in a fury, and she herself told the story to Terlahov afterwards! That's the kind of fellow he is. And Pigasov broke into a loud laugh.
The consciousness of being the instrument of these higher powers ought to outweigh all other joys for man; even in death he finds his life, his nest. Rudin stopped and dropped his eyes with a smile of involuntary embarrassment. 'Vous etes un poete, was Darya Mihailovna's comment in an undertone. And all were inwardly agreeing with her all except Pigasov.
'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.
But allow me to point out to you that when we say "that's all words!" we often wish ourselves to avoid the necessity of saying anything more substantial than mere words. 'What? said Pigasov, winking his eyes. 'You understood what I meant, retorted Rudin, with involuntary, but instantly repressed impatience.
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