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And where are you going to shoot just now? 'Thirty-five miles from here, at Ryabovo. 'Ryabovo? By Jove! now in that case I will come with you. Ryabovo's only four miles from my village Shipilovka, and it's a long while since I've been over to Shipilovka; I've never been able to get the time.
I should be ashamed to suggest your putting up for the night in my agent's cottage, but you're not particular, I know, and at Ryabovo you'd have slept in some hayloft.... We will go, we will go! And Arkady Pavlitch hummed some French song. 'You don't know, I dare say, he pursued, swaying from side to side; 'I've some peasants there who pay rent. It's the custom of the place what was I to do?
The next morning we got up rather early; I was getting ready to start for Ryabovo, but Arkady Pavlitch was anxious to show me his estate, and begged me to remain. I was not averse myself to seeing more of the first-rate qualities of that man of administrative power Sofron in their practical working. The agent made his appearance.
With all this, we were rather a long time on the road; I was in the same carriage as Arkady Pavlitch, and towards the end of the journey I was a prey to deadly boredom, especially as in a few hours my companion ran perfectly dry of subjects of conversation, and even fell to expressing his liberal views on politics. At last we did arrive not at Ryabovo, but at Shipilovka; it happened so somehow.
The bailiff drove a duck away from the puddle. The suppliants remained as they were a little, then looked at each other, and, without turning their heads, went on their way. Two hours later I was at Ryabovo, and making ready to begin shooting, accompanied by Anpadist, a peasant I knew well. Pyenotchkin had been out of humour with Sofron up to the time I left.
Well, this is a piece of luck; you can spend the day shooting in Ryabovo and come on in the evening to me. We'll have supper together we'll take the cook with us, and you'll stay the night with me. Capital! capital! he added without waiting for my answer. 'C'est arrange.... Hey, you there! Have the carriage brought out, and look sharp. You have never been in Shipilovka?
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