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Then he seated himself astride on a chair, lighted a cigar, and leaning both his elbows against the back, began: "Now tell me what's the matter." Nejdanov also seated himself astride on a chair in front of Solomin, but did not light a cigar. "So you want to know what's the matter... The fact is, I want to run away from here." "Am I to understand that you want to leave this house?
"Such clever chaps they are nowadays! Clever chaps!" Solomin interrupted him by asking about the hopeful young man whom he had mentioned and where he had discovered him. Golushkin laughed, repeating once or twice, "Just wait, you will see! You will see!" and began questioning him about his factory and its "rogue" of an owner, to which Solomin replied in monosyllables.
They are not heroes, not even 'heroes of labour' as some crank of an American, or Englishman, called them in a book he wrote for the edification of us heathens, but they are robust, strong, dull men of the people. They are exactly what we want just now. You have only to look at Solomin. A head as clear as the day and a body as strong as an ox. Isn't that a wonder in itself?
"What answer am I to take back, sir?" the footman in green livery asked slowly. Solomin stood for some seconds longer at the window. "I am coming with you," he announced, shaking back his hair and passing his hand over his forehead "just let me get dressed."
He suddenly remembered that he had forgotten his gloves, and called out to the "never-failing" Pavel, who brought him a pair of newly-washed white kid ones, the fingers of which were so stretched at the tips that they looked like long biscuits. Solomin thrust the gloves into his pocket and gave the order to start.
On the morning of this day Nejdanov received a letter from Vassily Nikolaevitch, instructing him, together with Markelov, to lose no time in coming to an understanding with Solomin and a certain merchant Golushkin, an Old Believer, living at S. This letter upset Nejdanov very much; it contained a note of reproach at his inactivity.
He fails to understand the woman who accompanies him, he fails to understand Solomin, and he fails to understand himself. So he finally does what so many Russian dreamers have done he places against his own breast the pistol he had intended for a less dangerous enemy. But he is a dead man long before that.
But Paklin soon reassured them, introducing Nejdanov, Solomin, and Markelov in turn, as good quiet people, not "governmental." Fomishka and Fimishka had a horror of governmental, that is to say, official people. Snandulia, who appeared at her brother's request, was far more disturbed and agitated than the old couple.
A curious sensation of fear, annoyance, and amazement took possession of her. Why did she not go with Nejdanov? Solomin had persuaded her not to... but where is Solomin? And what is going on around here? Of course Mashurina did not give her the letter because of her love for Nejdanov. But how could she decide to disregard orders? Did she want to appear magnanimous? What right had she?
And Mariana guessed that he wished to say something about him and that he could not. She, too, was silent. DIRECTLY Solomin had gone, Nejdanov jumped up from the couch, walked up and down the room several times, then stood still in the middle in a sort of stony indecision. Suddenly he threw off his "masquerade" costume, kicked it into a corner of the room, and put on his own clothes.
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