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"Why should they hurry?" replied Ivanoff, "It is a great mistake to do anything in a hurry." "And Sina, I suppose she is the heroine sans peur et sans reproche?" said Lida ironically. Tanaroff's thoughts were too much for him at this juncture. He burst out laughing, and then looked thoroughly sheepish. Lida, her hands on her hips and swaying gracefully to and fro, turned to look at him.
A trifle like that!" he muttered, shrugging his shoulders. "It is not a question of trifles," continued Sarudine, bitterly, "it is the principle of the thing. May I ask what right you ..." "I ..." stammered Tanaroff. "Pray don't explain," said Sarudine, in the same cutting tone. "I must beg you not to take such a liberty again." Tanaroff's lips quivered.
Von Deitz hesitated, but Tanaroff bowed in such an exaggerated way that for an instant Sanine caught sight of the closely cropped hair at the back of his neck. "How can I be of service to you?" continued Sanine, who had noticed Tanaroff's excessive politeness, and was surprised at the assurance with which he played his part in this absurd comedy.
Two red spots appeared on Sarudine's scrupulously shaven cheeks, and the muscles of his face worked convulsively. He silently resumed his walk up and down the room and suddenly stopped in front of Tanaroff. "Look here," he said, and his voice trembled with anger, "I should be much obliged if, in future, you would leave me to manage my own money- affairs." Tanaroff's face flushed crimson. "H'm!
Tanaroff's profound contempt for the man who refused to fight a duel was blended with the implicit belief that only an officer could possibly possess the pluck and the fine sense of honour necessary to do such a thing. That is why Sanine's refusal did not surprise him in the least; in fact, he was secretly pleased.
In this way he thought that he would avoid the shame levelled at him by thousands of eyes so soon as they encountered his. The slim, blue back of the droschky driver, the passers-by, malicious, inquisitive faces at windows, even Tanaroff's arm round his waist were all, as he imagined, silent expressions of undisguised contempt.
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