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Updated: June 17, 2025
She talked a great deal about him to Bersenyev. Bersenyev realised that Elena's imagination had been struck by Insarov, and was glad that his friend had not 'missed fire' as Shubin had asserted. One day Bersenyev came to the Stahovs, not at the customary time, but at eleven o'clock in the morning. Elena came down to him in the parlour.
Do you see this note of invitation, these letters, R.S.V.P.? Even in the country there's no peace for me. Addio! Bersenyev listened to Shubin's tirade in silence, looking as though he were just a little ashamed of him. Then he went into the courtyard of the Stahovs' house. And Shubin did really go to Prince Tchikurasov, to whom with the most cordial air he began saying the most insulting things.
Two minutes later, Bersenyev even caught the sound of sobbing; he got up and opened the window; everything was still, only somewhere in the distance some one a passing peasant, probably was humming 'The Plain of Mozdok. During the first fortnight of Insarov's stay in the Kuntsovo neighbourhood, he did not visit the Stahovs more than four or five times; Bersenyev went to see them every day.
After dinner he proposed to Insarov that he should take him to the Stahovs; but he replied that he had intended to devote the evening to correspondence with his Bulgarians, and so he would ask him to put off the visit to the Stahovs till next day.
Shubin ran on before them to announce their arrival. 'The conquering hero Insarov will be here directly! he shouted triumphantly, going into the Stahovs' drawing-room, where there happened at the instant to be only Elena and Zoya. 'Wer? inquired Zoya in German. When she was taken unawares she always used her native language. Elena drew herself up.
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