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Although in the others this speech roused a certain instinctive curiosity, they all felt ill at ease. Sarudine, who thought himself more intelligent and tactful than the rest, deemed it his duty to dispel this vague feeling of embarrassment. "Well, what do you think the young lady ought to do? Get married? Pursue a course of study, or let her talent be lost?
But she remained cold and lifeless. "Come, now, why are you so cross, my pretty one?" he murmured in a gentle tone of reproof. "Let me go! Let me go, I say!" exclaimed Lida, as she shook him off. Sarudine felt physically hurt that his passion should have been roused in vain. "Women are the very devil!" he thought. "What's the matter with you?" he asked testily, and his face flushed.
Sarudine alternately flushed and pale with jealousy, found it impossible to remain in one place, but walked restlessly up and down the path. "Our women are all alike ... stereotyped and made-up. To find one whose beauty is worthy of adoration, it is to the provinces that one must go, where the soil, untilled as yet, produces the most splendid flowers."
"That is your affair," he said, in an unmistakably contemptuous tone, "but I must warn you that ..." Sanine laughed. "Yes, yes, I know, but I advise Sarudine not to ..." "Not to what?" asked Tanaroff, as he picked up his cap from the window-sill. "I advise him not to touch me, or else I'll give him such a thrashing that ..." "Look here!" cried Von Deitz, in a fury.
"Lidia Petrovna, we are waiting for you," cried Sarudine, looking extremely smart in white, and heavily scented. Lida in a light gauzy dress with a collar and waist-band of rose- coloured velvet ran down the steps and held out both her hands to Sarudine. For a moment he grasped them tightly, as he glanced admiringly at her person.
What's done is done; and, if I thought that I had done wrong, I should be the first to say so." "I wanted to ask you this," said Soloveitchik, quivering with excitement. "Do you realize that perhaps you might have killed that man?" "There's not much doubt about that," replied Sanine. "It would have been difficult for a man like Sarudine to get out of the mess unless he killed me, or I killed him.
Sanine yawned as usual, ate, drank a good deal of brandy and apparently seemed longing to go to sleep. But when supper was over, he declared his intention of walking home with Sarudine. It was near midnight, and the moon shone high overhead. Almost in silence the two walked towards the officer's quarters.
All the way Sanine kept looking furtively at Sarudine, wondering if he should, or should not, strike him in the face. "Hm! Yes!" he suddenly began, as they got close to the house, "there are all sorts of blackguards in this world!" "What do you mean by that?" asked Sarudine, raising his eyebrows. "That is so; speaking generally. Blackguards are the most fascinating people."
As for Sarudine, he'll be delighted to sing; it doesn't matter where, so long as he can sing. This will attract a good many of his brother- officers, and we shall get a full house." "You ought to ask Sina Karsavina," said Lialia, looking wistfully at her brother. "He surely can't have forgotten," she thought. "How can he discuss this stupid concert, whilst I ..."
Sarudine took the slender red-covered pamphlet, and, turning over a few pages, said, "Is it interesting?" "You'll see for yourself," replied Von Deitz with enthusiasm. "There's a brain for you, my word! It's just as if one had known it all one's self!"
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