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A whole week will go by without his smiling once! Paramon Semyonitch is my benefactor, I am deeply indebted to him; he took care of me, educated me; I should have been utterly lost but for him; I'm bound to look on him as a father.... But be his wife! I'd rather die! I'd rather be in my coffin! 'Why do you keep talking about death, Musa Pavlovna? Musa stopped again.
I am firmly convinced that I have no grounds for resisting evil directed against me personally. If they want to kill me, let them. My defending myself will not make the murderer better. All I have now to decide is the second half of the question: how I ought to behave to evil directed against my neighbours?" "Vera, mind you don't become rabid!" said Vladimir Semyonitch, laughing.
The innkeeper at that time was not Naum Ivanov, but a certain Akim Semyonitch, a serf belonging to a neighbouring lady, Lizaveta Prohorovna Kuntse, the widow of a staff officer.
Well, the parents died, the relations would do nothing for her, and flung her to the hazards of destiny, that's to say, despair, dying of hunger! But at that point Paramon Semyonitch steps forward, known as a deliverer from of old! He took her, clothed her and cared for her, brought up the poor nestling; and she has blossomed into our darling! I tell you, a man of the rarest qualities!
'Are you independent now? 'Perfectly independent. 'That's capital! How pleased Paramon Semyonitch will be! To-day he'll be home earlier than usual, and madame lets her, too, off for Saturdays. But, stop, excuse me, I am quite forgetting myself. Of course, you don't know our niece! I hastened to slip in that I had not yet had the pleasure. 'Of course, of course! How could you know her!
Besides, whom should I be left with? Such was the retired lieutenant, Ivan Semyonitch. Kolosov used to go and see him, not on his account, of course, but for the sake of his daughter. One fine evening, Andrei was sitting in the garden with her, chatting about something; Ivan Semyonitch went up to him, looked sullenly at Varia, and called Andrei away.
It's a good thing we have no children, and I shall be all right, I dare say, alone. There's always enough for one." "What will you do, Semyonitch? Take up driving again?" Akim laughed bitterly. "I should be a fine driver, no mistake! You have pitched on the right man for it! No, Arefyenva, that's a job not like getting married, for instance; an old man is no good for the job.
Weeks and months passed by, and his sister clung to her ideas, and did not sit down by the table. One spring evening Vladimir Semyonitch was sitting at his table writing an article.
Now I have become more sensible and stolid, but I am just like every one else: I am mediocrity; I am weary of life. . . . Oh, how cruelly you have treated me! . . . I saw hallucinations, but what harm did that do to any one? I ask, what harm did that do any one?" "Goodness knows what you are saying!" sighed Yegor Semyonitch. "It's positively wearisome to listen to it." "Then don't listen."
'In that case, what do you complain of now? almost broke from my lips, ... but I restrained myself. 'Do you consider that the result of the fourteenth of December was such as to encourage other such attempts? I said aloud. Musa frowned. 'It is no good talking to you about it, was what I read in her downcast face. 'Is Paramon Semyonitch very seriously compromised? I ventured to ask her.
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