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A strange callousness, the callousness of the condemned, had come over her. During dinner Varvara Pavlovna said little. She seemed to have become timid again, and her face wore an expression of modest melancholy. Gedeonovsky was the only person who kept the conversation alive, relating several of his stories, though from time to time he looked timidly at Marfa Timofeevna and coughed.
Why, if you're so sad at heart, you should pay a visit to a convent, pray to a saint, order prayers to be said, but don't put the black veil on your head, my batyushka, my matyushka." And Marfa Timofeevna cried bitterly. Liza tried to console her, wiped the tears from her eyes, and cried herself, but maintained her purpose unshaken.
"Have you been down-stairs?" asked the old lady. "Whom did you find there? Is Panshine always hanging about there? But did you see Liza? No? She was to have come here. Why there she is as soon as one mentions her." Liza came into the room, caught sight of Lavretsky and blushed. "I have only come for a moment, Marfa Timofeevna," she was beginning. "Why for a moment?" asked the old lady.
Sometimes she looked round, at others she suddenly raised her eyes towards the ceiling. The whole affair evidently bored her. Marfa Timofeevna seemed pre-occupied. Nastasia Carpovna bowed down to the ground, and raised herself up again, with a sort of soft and modest sound.
We must send for a doctor; but for whom? Gedeonovsky praised some one the other day; but then he always lies but perhaps he has actually told the truth this time." But when she had become convinced that Liza was not ill, and was not raving when to all her objections Liza had constantly made the same reply, Marfa Timofeevna was thoroughly alarmed, and became exceedingly sorrowful.
Shurochka was a fatherless and motherless girl, whose relations belonged to the lowest class of the bourgeoisie. Marfa Timofeevna had adopted her, as well as Roska, out of pity. She had found both the dog and the girl out in the streets. Both of them were thin and cold; the autumn rain had drenched them both.
Shurochka, I see you want to run out into the garden. Be off!" "No, I don't Marfa Timofeevna " "No arguing, if you please. Be off. Nastasia Carpovna has gone into the garden by herself. Go and keep her company. You should show the old lady respect." Shurochka left the room. "But where is my cap? Wherever can it have got to?" "Let me look for it," said Liza. "Sit still, sit still!
Even Marfa Timofeevna, although she never put any constraint upon Liza, tried to induce her to moderate her zeal, and would not let her make so many prostrations. It was not a lady-like habit, she said.
Maria Dmitrievna was asleep, the footman declared; her head ached, Marfa Timofeevna and Lizaveta Mikhailovna were not at home. Lavretsky walked round the outside of the garden in the vague hope of meeting Liza, but he saw no one. Two hours later he returned to the house, but received the same answer as before; moreover, the footman looked at him in a somewhat marked manner.
Gedeonovsky's only reply was a forced smile. For a short time he remained silent, but presently he said, "May I be allowed to be so inquisitive as to ask for whom this pretty scarf is intended?" Marfa Timofeevna looked up at him quickly. "For whom is it intended?" she said.
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