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Updated: June 22, 2025
Sanine set the table in the middle of the room, and as he did so, the eyes of all were fixed on his strong back and muscular shoulders which showed through his thin shirt.
"Oh! you cannot imagine how it distresses me to hear this!" he exclaimed. "Really, Soloveitchik, you're quite hysterical," said Sanine, in surprise. "I have not told you anything extraordinary. Possibly the subject is, to you, a painful one?" "Oh! most painful. I am always thinking, thinking, till my head seems as if it would burst. Was all that really an error, nothing more?
"I will help you in your trouble, and stand by you when you fight your battles. And now, as you're such a beauty, you must give me a kiss." Lida smiled; a smile mysterious as that of a wood-nymph. Sanine put his arms round her waist, and, as her warm supple form thrilled at his touch, his fond embrace became almost vehement.
At her heart she felt an icy chill. Her subtle feminine instinct told her that her brother was not what she had imagined him to be. In his presence she felt shy and embarrassed, as if he were a stranger. It was now evening; faint shadows encircled them. Sanine lit a cigarette and the delicate odour of tobacco mingled with the fragrance of the garden.
Yourii felt that his speech was discourteous, and that he ought not to go any farther, yet his wounded self-respect drove him to add: "Such a tone is really most unpleasant." "It is my usual tone," replied Sanine, partly annoyed, and partly anxious to appease the other.
Formerly the fellow posed as a pessimist, disgusted with life and bent upon airing impossible views of his own; now, he's trifling with animalism." From Sanine Yourii's thoughts reverted to himself. He came to the conclusion that he trifled with nothing but that his thoughts, his sufferings, his whole personality, were original, and quite different from those of other men.
It was a joy to him to do this, for he felt that he loved her, and was grateful to her. As he put her down on the shore after embracing her fondly, she stumbled. "Oh! you beauty!" exclaimed Sanine, in a voice full of passion and tenderness and pity. She smiled in unconscious pride. Sanine took hold of her hands, and drew her to him. "Kiss me!"
Novikoff kept walking up and down the path, as before. He was evidently hurt. At this moment the terrier came running back excitedly and rubbed against Sanine's knees, as if wishful to let every one know how pleased he was. "Good dog!" said Sanine, patting him.
She looked above, around her, in ecstasy, listening to the immense joy pulsating on every side; in the sunlight, in the green meadows, the shining stream, the calm, smiling face of her brother, and in herself. It was as if she now could see and hear all this for the first time. "To be alive!" cried a gladsome voice within her. "All right!" said Sanine.
So they went to the little inn and bought vodka and fresh gherkins from the woman with the red kerchief. "Aha! you seem to be pretty flush of money, my friend," said Ivanoff, as Sanine produced his purse. "I've had an advance," replied the latter, smiling. "Much to my mother's annoyance, I have accepted the secretaryship of an assurance agency.
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