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SOLOMIN'S refusal greatly offended Sipiagin; so much so, that he suddenly found that this home-bred Stevenson was not such a wonderful engineer after all, and that though he was not perhaps a complete poser, yet gave himself airs like the plebeian he was. "All these Russians when they imagine they know a thing become insufferable! Au fond Kollomietzev was right!"
Five days after Solomin's return home there drove into the courtyard a smart little phaeton, harnessed to four splendid horses and a footman in pale green livery, whom Pavel conducted to the little wing, where he solemnly handed Solomin a letter sealed with an armorial crest, from "His Excellency Boris Andraevitch Sipiagin."
It's nothing but mere idleness, sluggishness, want of thinking. Solomin, on the other hand, is different; he doesn't go in for pulling teeth he knows what he's about!" Mashurina gave an impatient wave of the hand, as though she wished to dismiss the subject. "And that girl," she began, "I forget her name... the one who ran away with Nejdanov what became of her?" "Mariana? She's Solomin's wife now.
Why had everyone forsaken her? EVERYONE. This stout woman had called her a bird, a beauty... why not quite plainly, a doll? And why did Nejdanov not go alone, but with Pavel? It's just as if he needed someone to look after him! And what are really Solomin's convictions? It's quite clear that he's not a revolutionist! And could any one really think that he does not treat the whole thing seriously?
Valentina Mihailovna laughed and assured him that this precaution was altogether unnecessary, since he would hear nothing but good of himself; inwardly she thought Solomin's action rather strange, but delicate in its own way. At this point Kollomietzev could no longer contain himself. "And so you've been in England," he began, "and no doubt studied the manners and customs there.
Markelov was already known to him. This was Pavel, Solomin's factotum. Solomin approached the two visitors slowly and without a word, pressed the hand of each in turn in his own hard bony one. He opened a drawer, pulled out a sealed letter, which he handed to Pavel, also without a word, and the latter immediately left the room.
Solomin's head appeared through the door. "Mariana Vikentievna, can I come in? I have brought someone whom it's absolutely necessary for you to see." Mariana merely nodded her head in reply and behind Solomin in walked Paklin. "I AM a friend of your husband's," he said, bowing very low, as if anxious to conceal his frightened face, "and also of Vassily Fedotitch.
During dinner she had exchanged glances with Nejdanov several times on his account, and in the end found herself involuntarily comparing the two, not to Nejdanov's advantage. Nejdanov's face was, it is true, handsomer and pleasanter to look at than Solomin's, but the very face expressed a medley of troubled sensations: embarrassment, annoyance, impatience, and even dejection.
Mariana smiled to herself, while Nejdanov again pressed Solomin's hand. "But I say, won't your employer, the owner of the factory, be annoyed about it. Won't he make it unpleasant for you?" he asked after a pause. Solomin looked askance at Nejdanov. "Oh, don't bother about me! It's quite unnecessary. So long as things at the factory go on all right it's all the same to my employer.
"Yes, your excellency; in a large establishment " Here Paklin bit his tongue. "Why, of course, at Solomin's! that's where they are! However, I knew it all along. I've been told so; I've already been informed." "Since you know that," he began and bit his tongue a second time ... But it was already too late.
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