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But I have only now got a look at you. Are you quite well?" "Yes." "Shurotchka!" cried Marfa Timofyevna suddenly, "run and tell Lisaveta Mihalovna, at least, no, ask her... is she down-stairs?" "Yes." "Well, then; ask her where she put my book? she will know." "Very well." The old lady grew fidgety again and began opening a drawer in the chest. Lavretsky sat still without stirring in his place.
At that instant Lavretsky noticed that Lenotchka and Shurotchka were standing near Lisa, and staring in dumb amazement at him. He dropped Lisa's hands, saying hurriedly, "I beg your pardon," and turned away towards the house. "One thing only I beg of you," he added, returning again to Lisa; "don't decide at once, wait a little, think of what I have said to you.
How is your head?" "It's nothing." "You keep saying it's nothing. What have you going on down-stairs music?" "No they are playing cards." "Well, she's ready for anything. Shurotchka, I see you want a run in the garden run along." "Oh, no, Marfa Timofyevna." "Don't argue, if you please, run along. Nastasya Karpovna has gone out into the garden all by herself; you keep her company.
We are just finishing our game. Would you like some preserve? Shurotchka, bring him a pot of strawberry. You don't want any? Well, sit there; only you mustn't smoke; I can't bear your tobacco, and it makes Matross sneeze." Lavretsky made haste to assure her that he had not the least desire to smoke. "Have you been down-stairs?" the old lady continued. "Whom did you see there?
"And Marfa Timofyevna," observed Shurotchka. "And Nastasya Karpovna," added Lenotchka, "and Monsier Lemm." "What? is Lemm dead?" inquired Lavretsky. "Yes," replied young Kalitin, "he left here for Odessa; they say some one enticed him there; and there he died." "You don't happen to know,... did he leave any music?" "I don't know; not very likely." All were silent and looked about them.
"Well, but Lisa," inquired Lavretsky, "is she indifferent to him?" "She seems to like him, but there, God knows! The heart of another, you know, is a dark forest, and a girl's more than any. Shurotchka's heart, for instance I defy you to understand it! What makes her hide herself and not come out ever since you came in?" Shurotchka choked with suppressed laughter and skipped out of the room.
It consisted of five creatures almost equally near to her heart; a big-cropped, learned bullfinch, which she had taken a fancy to because he had lost his accomplishments of whistling and drawing water; a very timid and peaceable little dog, Roska; an ill-tempered cat, Matross; a dark-faced, agile little girl nine years old, with big eyes and a sharp nose, call Shurotchka; and an elderly woman of fifty-five, in a white cap and a cinnamon-coloured abbreviated jacket, over a dark skirt, by name, Nastasya Karpovna Ogarkov.
"Yes," replied Lavretsky, "but would it not be better to be just a family party?" "Well, you know, it seems," began Marya Dmitrievna. "But as you please," she added. It was decided to take Lenotchka and Shurotchka. Marfa Timofyevna refused to join in the expedition.
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