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'They don't use them because they don't understand them. Darya Mihailovna flushed slightly. 'You are beginning to be impertinent, African Semenitch! she remarked with a forced smile. There was complete stillness in the room. 'Where is Zolotonosha? asked one of the boys suddenly of Bassistoff. 'What next? a fine poet you would make! retorted Darya Mihailovna. 'Do you know Little Russian?
'You see, observed Darya Mihailovna, 'African Semenitch has got on his hobbyhorse, now he will not be off it to-night. 'My hobby! But women have three at least, which they are never off, except, perhaps, when they're asleep. 'What three hobbies are those? 'Reproof, reproach, recrimination.
'Who was that? 'My mother, said Pigasov, dropping his voice. 'Your mother? What injury could she have done you? 'She brought me into the world. Darya Mihailovna frowned. 'Our conversation, she said, 'seems to have taken a gloomy turn. Constantin, play us Thalberg's new etude. I daresay the music will soothe African Semenitch. Orpheus soothed savage beasts.
'I thought, began African Semenitch slowly, 'that there are three kinds of egoists; the egoists who live themselves and let others live; the egoists who live themselves and don't let others live; and the egoists who don't live themselves and don't let others live. Women, for the most part, belong to the third class. 'That's polite!
'What is it, African Semenitch? inquired Alexandra Pavlovna. 'Oh, yesterday I heard a peasant say to his wife she had been chattering away "don't squeak!" I liked that immensely. And after all, what can a woman talk about? I never, you know, speak of present company. Our ancestors were wiser than we.
The red, cunning and good-natured face of the custom-house officer was making an effort to appear terrible; with the result that swollen and purple, with wrinkling eyebrows and bulging eyes, it only succeeded in being funny. "You've been warned before: don't you dare to come upon the wharf, or I'll break every rib in your body!" fiercely exclaimed the officer. "How do you do, Semenitch!
I would not give a brass farthing for your civilisation! 'But what a poor sort of argument, African Semenitch! observed Darya Mihailovna, inwardly much pleased by the calmness and perfect good-breeding of her new acquaintance. 'Cest un homme comme il faut, she thought, looking with well-disposed scrutiny at Rudin; 'we must be nice to him! Those last words she mentally pronounced in Russian.
Accompanying his words with a terrible glance, and showing his teeth in a mocking grin, he added: "I'm always intending to make you a visit, but I never have the time: I'm always drunk " "That'll do, that'll do, drop that Stop joking, bony devil! If you don't, comrade, I Or do you really intend to rob houses and streets?" "Why? There's enough here for both of us. My God, yes! Semenitch!
Konstantin Diomiditch took his seat at the piano, and played the etude very fairly well. Natalya Alexyevna at first listened attentively, then she bent over her work again. 'Merci, c'est charmant, observed Darya Mihailovna, 'I love Thalberg. Il est si distingue. What are you thinking of, African Semenitch?
You've stolen two boxes of goods again? Look out, Semenitch, be careful! Or you'll be caught one of these days!" Semenitch trembled with anger at the impudence of Tchelkache; he spat upon the ground in a vain effort to speak. Tchelkache let go his hand and turned back quietly and deliberately at the entrance to the wharf. The officer, swearing like a trooper, followed him.
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