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"As for that," said Rameyev, "you are not limited to choosing a charming wife from among my daughters." "That's not so easy," said Piotr with dejected irony. "But I see no need of insisting. Besides, the same thing might happen with Elena. She might come across a more brilliant match. And there are not a few charlatans in this world of the Trirodov brand." "Elena loves you," said Rameyev.
He was tormented by a feeling of hostility to Trirodov. He glanced at Trirodov with suspicion and hate. He was exasperated by Trirodov's confident tone and facile speech. Piotr's remarks addressed to the visitor were often caustic, even coarse. Rameyev looked vexed at Piotr now and then, but Trirodov appeared not to notice his sallies, and was simple, tranquil, and courteous.
Nevertheless Rameyev was disturbed for some unknown reason. Elena loved Elisaveta and shared her joy. She loved Piotr, and was, therefore, even more glad; she pitied him and, therefore, loved him even more. She loved him so deeply, and entertained such hopes of his love, that her pity for him became serene and radiant. She looked at Piotr with loving eyes. Piotr was in a state of despair.
"They might close your school," suggested Piotr in a tone of sharp derision. "And again they might not," asserted Trirodov. "But if they should?" persisted Piotr. "Let us hope for the best," said Rameyev. Elisaveta looked affectionately at her father.
"Of course," replied Rameyev. "His problem is to lull to sleep the beast in man, and to awaken the man." "I have heard his discourses," said Piotr, showing his annoyance, "and I do not believe them in the slightest. I'm only astonished that others can believe such nonsense. And I don't believe either in his poetry or in his chemistry.
I reveal it in the hope that the intimate part of me shall become the universal." "You would do away with many fine pictures if you had your way," said Rameyev. "I am not so simple as not to be able to make a distinction," replied Piotr animatedly. "In the one case it is pure art, always sacred; in the other there is an effort to inflame the feelings with pornographic pictures.
Trirodov said: "It's not quite large enough. I should like to acquire the rest of it for my colony." "I shouldn't like to let the rest go," remarked Rameyev. "It belongs to Piotr and Misha." "As far as it concerns me," put in Piotr, "I'd sell my share with the greatest pleasure before those 'comrade' fellows take it from me for nothing."
"Surely you have noticed it?" Piotr laughed. He assumed a gaiety or did he actually feel gay and joyous at the sudden thought of the charming Elena? Of course she loved him! But he asked: "Why do you think, my dear uncle, that I need a wife at all costs? May God be with her!" "You are in love generally, as is common in your years," said Rameyev.
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