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Updated: June 22, 2025
"Yes, but I don't quite understand, Volodja!" said his mother, bewildered, while yet in her heart she could hear the joyous refrain, "Lida's going to be married, going to be married!" Sanine shrugged his shoulders. "What is that you don't understand? She was in love with one man, and now she's in love with another; and to-morrow she'll be in love with a third. Well, God bless her!"
"Do you mean to say that it wouldn't be a lucky thing for you to marry Lida?" continued Sanine merrily. "Shut up!" cried the other, staggering forward, and brandishing an old boot over Sanine's head. "Now then! Gently! Are you mad?" said Sanine sharply, as he stepped backwards. Novikoff flung the boot away in disgust, breathing hard.
He still felt somewhat ill at ease, and, to hide this, he began to examine the engravings attentively. "Do you like Vasnetzoff?" asked Ivanoff as, without waiting for an answer, he left the room to fetch a plate. Sanine told Peter Ilitsch that Semenoff was dead. "God rest his soul!" droned the latter. "Ah! well, it's all over for him now."
Volochine, losing his pince-nez as he Stumbled over a bush, ran away as fast as he could across the damp grass, so that his spotless trousers instantly became black up to the knees. Tanaroff ground his teeth with fury, and also dashed forward, but Ivanoff caught him by the shoulders and pulled him back. "That's all right!" said Sanine scornfully. "Let him come."
"A letter," replied Sanine, looking up, gaily. "To whom?" "Oh! to a journalist I know. I think of joining the staff of his paper." "So you write for the papers?" Sanine smiled. "I do everything." "But why do you want to go there?" "Because I'm tired of living here with you, mother," said Sanine frankly. Maria Ivanovna felt somewhat hurt. "Thank you," she said.
"As a matter of fact," said Sanine, "I don't know why I came here, but," he added, laughing, "it may have been because I was told that there would be some beer." Goschienko glanced contemptuously at him over the lamp, and continued: "Our association is formed for the purpose of self-education by means of mutual readings, and debates, and independent discussions " "Mutual readings?
"I want to see Mademoiselle Karsavina, the schoolteacher," replied the bare-footed urchin, in a shrill voice. "Why?" To Sanine the name instantly recalled a vision of Sina, standing at the water's edge in all her nude, sunlit loveliness. "I have got a letter for her," said the boy. "Aha! She must be at the hospice over the way, as she is not here. You had better go there."
They gazed into each other's eyes steadfastly, knowing that in their hearts they held a secret which no one would ever discover, and the memory of which would always be bright. "Well, good-bye," said Sina, in a gentle, girlish voice. Sanine looked radiant with pleasure. She held out her hand, and they kissed, simply, affectionately, like brother and sister.
"No, that is impossible," replied Yourii, "everything is too wisely and carefully arranged, and " "In my opinion," said Sanine, "there's nothing good anywhere." "How can you say that? What about Nature?" "Nature! Ha, ha!" Sanine laughed feebly, and waved his hand in derision. "It is customary, I know, to say that Nature is perfect. The truth is, that Nature is just as defective as mankind.
She could not discern their faces in the dusk, yet she felt that the dreaded moment was at hand. She turned very pale, and it seemed as if life was about to end. "There!" said Sanine, "I have brought Novikoff to you. He will tell you himself all that he has to tell. Stay here quietly, while I will go and get some tea."
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