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Updated: June 11, 2025
"Good-night, prince," said Ptitsin, approaching his host. "What are you thinking of? Don't go, he'll blow his brains out in a minute!" cried Vera Lebedeff, rushing up to Hippolyte and catching hold of his hands in a torment of alarm. "What are you thinking of? He said he would blow his brains out at sunrise." "Oh, he won't shoot himself!" cried several voices, sarcastically.
But today, in the strange uncertainty of human nature, it seemed to require but so small an offence as this to make his cup to overflow. The old man grew purple in the face, he raised his hands. "Enough of this!" he yelled. "My curse away, out of the house I go! Colia, bring my bag away!" He left the room hastily and in a paroxysm of rage. His wife, Colia, and Ptitsin ran out after him.
"H'm! and you think there was something of this sort here, do you? Dear me a very remarkable comparison, you know! But you must have observed, my dear Ptitsin, that I did all I possibly could. I could do no more than I did. And you must admit that there are some rare qualities in this woman.
"That'll do, Gania!" cried Varia and Ptitsin. "Shut up, Gania!" said Colia. But this intercession seemed to rekindle the general. "What did you mean, sir, that he didn't exist? Explain yourself," he repeated, angrily. "Because he DIDN'T exist never could and never did there! You'd better drop the subject, I warn you!" "And this is my son my own son whom I oh, gracious Heaven!
Ptitsin told me all about it; and the photo was lying under the table, and I picked it up." "Prince," asked Nina Alexandrovna, "I wanted to inquire whether you have known my son long? I think he said that you had only arrived today from somewhere." The prince gave a short narrative of what we have heard before, leaving out the greater part. The two ladies listened intently.
Ptitsin and another have promised to find me forty thousand roubles by seven o'clock tonight. Forty thousand roubles paid down on the nail!" The scene was growing more and more disgraceful; but Nastasia Philipovna continued to laugh and did not go away. Nina Alexandrovna and Varia had both risen from their places and were waiting, in silent horror, to see what would happen.
"See, it is rising now!" "Well, what then? Did you suppose it wasn't going to rise?" asked Ferdishenko. "It's going to be atrociously hot again all day," said Gania, with an air of annoyance, taking his hat. "A month of this... Are you coming home, Ptitsin?" Hippolyte listened to this in amazement, almost amounting to stupefaction. Suddenly he became deadly pale and shuddered.
She made her first concession to the demands of practical life with great resolution when she consented to marry Ptitsin.
Ptitsin, who had been out to visit a friend, returned home in a state of considerable mental depression. There are certain people of whom it is difficult to say anything which will at once throw them into relief in other words, describe them graphically in their typical characteristics.
The little one is delicate; she needs change of air; and during our absence this house will be done up. I am going to Pavlofsk." "You are going to Pavlofsk too?" asked the prince sharply. "Everybody seems to be going there. Have you a house in that neighbourhood?" "I don't know of many people going to Pavlofsk, and as for the house, Ivan Ptitsin has let me one of his villas rather cheaply.
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