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Updated: May 22, 2025
I remember now. You haven't come from him by the way, have you?" "Not at all, your excellency; on the contrary...I " Sipiagin sat down again. "That's good. For had you come on his account I should have asked you to leave the house at once. I cannot allow any mediator between myself and Mr. Nejdanov. Mr. It is enough for them that I am content to forget them."
"Il est tres cassant you know. He has far too great a contempt for the people for my liking. And he has been so frightfully quarrelsome and irritable of late. Is his little affair there not getting on well?" Sipiagin nodded his head in some indefinite direction, but his wife understood him. "Open your eyes, I tell you again!" Sipiagin stood up. "Eh?"
On the contrary, they had never yet experienced such a strong antipathy to one another. Dinner ended in an awkward, unpleasant silence. Sipiagin attempted to relate some diplomatic anecdote, but stopped half-way through. Mariana kept looking down at her plate persistently, not wishing to betray her sympathy with what Nejdanov had said.
"You have an awful name like that and get insulted when people change it for you so here you are then! Take your fill of it! Mr. Paklin! Paklin!" The unfortunate name rang out clearly in the cool morning air. It was so keen as to make Kollomietzev, who came out after Sipiagin, exclaim several times in French... "Brrr! brrr! brrr!"
"You quite understand, I hope," Sipiagin continued in the same tone, "that I can take no further serious interest as I explained to you either in that frivolous girl or in your friend. Heaven knows that I have no prejudices, but really, you will agree with me, this is too much! So foolish, you know. "I think so too, your excellency!" "Yes, Mr. Nejdanov was certainly revolutionary.
Sipiagin with a quick graceful movement seized his hat, but Valentina Mihailovna was so insistent in her persuasions for him to put off the journey until the morning and brought so many convincing arguments to bear such as: that it was pitch dark outside, that everybody in town would be asleep, that he would only upset his nerves and might catch cold that Sipiagin at length came to agree with her.
I would have looked after her quite differently!" Sipiagin listened to her indulgently, sympathetically, but with a severe expression on his face.
Sipiagin called aloud for ale, while Solomin calmly turned towards Valentina Mihailovna, saying, "You may not be aware, madame, that I spent over two years in England and can understand and speak English. I only mentioned it in case you should wish to say anything private before me."
Sipiagin was telling his wife how he had met him, what Prince G. had said of him, and the gist of their talks on the journey. "A clever chap!" he repeated, "and well educated, too. It's true he's a revolutionist, but what does it matter? These people are ambitious, at any rate. As for Kolia, he is too young to be spoiled by any of this nonsense."
"Under the wing of wise and benevolent authority," Sipiagin corrected him. The toast was drunk in silence. The empty space on Sipiagin's left, in the form of Nejdanov, did certainly make several sounds of disapproval; but arousing not the least attention became quiet again, and the dinner, without any further controversy, reached a happy conclusion.
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