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Updated: April 30, 2025
From the time of Pavel Afanasievitch's betrothal, both the Rogatchovs, father and son, had been tremendously busy. They had been having their house entirely transformed adding various 'galleries, talking in a friendly way with the workmen, encouraging them with drinks. They had not yet completed all these additions by the winter; they put off the wedding till the summer.
On their way home, Pavel Afanasievitch whispered to his parent, 'Well, father? Afanasey Lukitch responded angrily also in a whisper, 'Don't speak of it! The Rogatchovs began to be less frequent visitors at Lutchinovka.
Suddenly, at the beginning of the spring, he became once more the charming, attractive person they had known of old... The first symptom of this sudden transformation was Vassily's unexpected visit to the Rogatchovs. Afanasey Lukitch, in particular, was fairly disconcerted at the sight of Lutchinov's carriage, but his dismay very quickly vanished.
But Olga Ivanovna became suddenly conscious of the negligence of her attire, and 'swifter than the swift red deer' she slipped away into the next room. The very same day Vassily set off to the Rogatchovs. He was suddenly happy and light-hearted.
He could not in the least rely upon Olga Ivanovna; she was continually betraying herself, turning pale, blushing, weeping... her new part was utterly beyond her powers. Vassily toiled for two: in his restless and boisterous gaiety, only an experienced observer could have detected something strained and feverish. He played his brothers, sisters, the Rogatchovs, the neighbours, like pawns at chess.
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