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Updated: June 2, 2025
Ratsch, your stepfather, has already received from me the necessary instructions. To which I must add that your attractive exterior seems to me a pledge of the excellence of your sentiments. Semyon Matveitch went off into a thin chuckle, while I... I was not offended exactly... but I suddenly felt very sorry for myself... and at that moment I fully realised how utterly forsaken and alone I was.
Susanna challenged Ratsch, but he gazed blankly, and suddenly subsiding into silence, all of a heap, so to say, drew his head in, even stepped back a pace. The veteran of the year twelve was afraid; there could be no mistake about that.
'Especially in regard to morals, as you say, our ideas do not agree, and cannot agree, she responded, and something menacing seemed to flit over her brows, while her lips were faintly trembling as before. 'Of course! of course! Ratsch broke in, 'I'm not a philosopher! I'm not capable of... rising so superior! I'm a plain man, swayed by prejudices oh yes! Susanna smiled again.
She started instinctively, flushed red, and bit her lower lip. A spot of light, like the gleam of a tear, flashed on her eyelash, and rising quickly, she went out of the room. 'Where are you off to, Susanna Ivanovna? Mr. Ratsch bawled after her. 'Let her be, Ivan Demianitch, 'put in Eleonora Karpovna. 'Wenn sie einmal so et was im Kopfe hat...
Ratsch... every one else, too, was angry with me, and tried to show their anger, as though I had deceived them. One Sunday after matins, in which he invariably officiated at the altar, Semyon Matveitch sent for me. Till that day I had seen him by glimpses, and he seemed not to have noticed me. He received me in his study, standing at the window. He was wearing an official uniform with two stars.
Semyon Matveitch died shortly after. In his will he secured to me and increased the pension he had allowed me.... In the event of my death, it was to pass to Mr. Ratsch.... Two three years passed... six years, seven years.... Life has been passing, ebbing away... while I merely watched how it was ebbing.
Fancy, what a calamity to happen so suddenly, she added, turning to me; 'who could have expected such a thing of Susanna Ivanovna? 'I was always expecting it, always! cried Ratsch, and threw up his arms, his dressing-gown flying up in front as he did so, and displaying most repulsive unmentionables of chamois leather, with buckles on the belt.
Hold fast, hold fast!" And then they all hung on to her; but there were too many of them, and ritsch, ratsch! the sleeve tore, and Anne Lisbeth fell down in horror and awoke.
Ratsch shivered, ground his teeth, and clenched his fists. 'All right, wait a bit, your highness! he muttered huskily. 'I won't forget it! That same day, Ivan Matveitch sent for him, and, I was told, shook his cane at him, the very cane which he had once exchanged with the Due de la Rochefoucauld, and cried, 'You be a scoundrel and extortioner!
Ratsch, 'kindly come along. He took me, without haste, by the arm above the elbow.... He saw that I should not resist. Of my own accord I pushed forward towards the door; at that instant I had but one thought in my mind, to escape as quickly as possible from the presence of Semyon Matveitch.
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