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Updated: June 12, 2025
'Oh, I wanted to I wanted you to tell me that. 'Our young lady is anxious to learn, Punin observed from the sofa. When I went out into the passage Musa accompanied me, not, of course, from politeness, but with the same malicious intent. I asked her, as I took leave, 'Can you really love him so much? 'Whether I love him, or whether I don't, that's my affair, she answered.
His half-closed eyes were looking at me, blinking slowly; they expressed a senseless terror, the terror of a frightened hare, and his arms hung at his sides like sticks. 'Nikander Vavilitch! what is the matter with you? How did you come here? Did no one see you? What has happened? Do speak! 'She has run away, Punin articulated in a hoarse, hardly audible voice. 'What do you say?
He loved her terribly....Oh, oh, we both loved her! Here Punin for the first time showed that he was not a wooden image, but a live man; he lifted both his fists in the air, and brought them down on his pate, which shone like ivory.
I promised to let him know, as soon as I should find out anything positive.... Tarhov's name I did not, however, mention. Punin suddenly collapsed completely. 'Very good, very good, sir, thank you, he said with a pitiful face, using the word 'sir, which he had never done before; 'only mind, sir, do not say anything to Paramon Semyonitch ... or he'll be angry. In one word, he has forbidden it.
But Zeno! Why drag in Zeno? As he said good-bye to me, Punin insisted very warmly on my visiting them next day, Sunday; Baburin did not invite me at all, and even remarked between his teeth, that talking to plain people of nondescript position could not give me any great pleasure, and would most likely be disagreeable to my granny.
'Because Paramon Semyonitch is more fit to be your young lady's father; because such a difference in age excludes all likelihood of love on the girl's side. 'Excludes? Punin repeated excitedly. 'But what about gratitude? and pure affection? and tenderness of feeling? Excludes!
'He is young, repeated Punin, smearing the tears over his cheeks; 'and she is young.... It's from that that all the trouble's sprung! This rhyme came by chance; poor Punin was in no mood for versifying. I would have given a good deal to hear his rhapsodical eloquence again, or even his almost noiseless laugh.... Alas! his eloquence was quenched for ever, and I never heard his laugh again.
'Two months, not longer; grandmother says that I'm spoilt in the country, though I have a governess even here. 'A French governess? 'Yes. Punin scratched behind his ear. 'A mamselle, that's to say? 'Yes; she's called Mademoiselle Friquet. I suddenly felt it disgraceful for me, a boy of twelve, to have not a tutor, but a governess, like a little girl!
'She said she was leaving us because she loved some one else! Dear, good friend, you know, surely, where she is? Save her, let us go to her; we will persuade her. Only think what a man she's bringing to ruin. Punin all at once flushed crimson, the blood seemed to rush to his head, he plumped heavily down on his knees. 'Save us, friend, let us go to her.
His name's been well bestowed on him the very word, Herrraskov! Lomonosov Punin found fault with for too simple and free a style; while to Derzhavin he maintained an attitude almost of hostility, saying that he was more of a courtier than a poet.
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