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Updated: June 14, 2025
'But may not your senses deceive you? Your senses tell you that the sun goes round the earth,... but perhaps you don't agree with Copernicus? You don't even believe in him? Again a smile passed over every one's face, and all eyes were fastened on Rudin. 'He's by no means a fool, every one was thinking. 'You are pleased to keep on joking, said Pigasov.
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.
But of this interesting peculiarity of Russian intellectual life, in the years 1840 to 1860, I will speak more fully when analysing another of Turgenev's novels in which this contrast is most conspicuous. I will say nothing of the minor characters of the story before us: Lezhnyov, Pigasov, Madame Lasunsky, Pandalevsky, who are all excellent examples of what may be called miniature-painting.
'Who was that? 'My mother, said Pigasov, dropping his voice. 'Your mother? What injury could she have done you? 'She brought me into the world. Darya Mihailovna frowned. 'Our conversation, she said, 'seems to have taken a gloomy turn. Constantin, play us Thalberg's new etude. I daresay the music will soothe African Semenitch. Orpheus soothed savage beasts.
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