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On reaching the street, they sighed, as if relieved. "Where shall we go now?" asked Schafroff. After brief hesitation, they all took leave of each other, and went their different ways.
At the church-porch lamps glimmered, and in the air there was a faint odour either of incense or of faded poplar-leaves. "Hullo, Svarogitsch!" shouted some one behind him. Yourii turned round, and saw Schafroff, Sanine, Ivanoff and Peter Ilitch, who came across the court-yard, talking loudly and merrily.
"Why, I told you just now we had done so!" replied Schafroff. "Oh! yes, so you did," said Lialia, smiling faintly. "Then there's Lida. But you mentioned her I think?" "Of course I did! Whom else can we ask, eh?" "I really ... don't know!" faltered Lialia. "I've got such a headache." Yourii glanced hurriedly at his sister, and then continued to pore over his pamphlets.
He intended Ivanoff to hear what he said, though he did not look at him. Schafroff listened with reverence and enthusiasm. While Ivanoff who had partly turned his back to Yourii received each new statement with a mocking "We've heard all that before!" At last Sanine languidly interposed. "Oh! do stop all this," he said. "Don't you find it terribly boring?
Schafroff probably perceived this, for he turned pale, and stopped at a respectful distance. The students and girls followed close at his heels like a flock of sheep behind a bell-wether. "What else do you want?" asked Sanine, without raising his voice. "We want nothing," replied Schafroff in confusion, "but all my fellow- comrades wish me to express their displeasure at "
They all wanted to go, and yet were fearful of what they should see. Yourii shrugged his shoulders. "Let us go," he said. "Very likely they won't admit us, and perhaps, too " "Perhaps he might wish to see some one," added Dubova, as if relieved. "Come on! We'll go!" said Sina with decision. "Schafroff and Novikoff are there," added Dubova, as if to justify herself.
They spoke almost in whispers, and it was plain that Semenoff could not hear them, but yet all the others looked shocked. Schafroff was about to say something, but at that moment a new sound, indescribably plaintive, echoed through the room, sending a shiver through all. "Ee ee ee!" moaned Semenoff.
Then I shall play the violin, and afterwards Sarudine might sing, accompanied by Tanaroff." "Oh! then, officers are to take part in the concert, are they?" asked Lialia mechanically, thinking all the while of something quite different. "Why, of course!" exclaimed Schafroff, with a wave of his hand. "Lida has only got to accept, and they'll all swarm round her like bees.
"In fact it is beautiful to be alive," she added. A thought, vague and disquieting, crossed Yourii's mind, but it vanished without taking any clear shape. Some one loudly whistled twice on the other side of the meadow, and then came silence, as before. "Do you like Schafroff?" asked Sina suddenly, being inwardly amused at so apparently inept a question.
Schafroff paused until the cigarette was lighted, and then continued his list: "Tchekhof, Ibsen, Knut Hamsun " "But we've read them all!" exclaimed Sina Karsavina. Her delightful voice thrilled Yourii, and he said: "Of course! Schafroff forgets that this is not a Sunday school. What a strange jumble, too! Tolstoi and Knut Hamsun "
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