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Petersburg; but Fedor Ivanovich has lived all the time on his estate." "Yes, and mamma too is dead, since then." "And Marfa Timofeevna," said Shurochka. "And Nastasia Corpovna," continued Lenochka, "and Monsieur Lemm." "What? is Lemm dead too?" asked Lavretsky. "Yes," answered young Kalitine. "He went away from here to Odessa. Some one is said to have persuaded him to go there, and there he died."
At nine o'clock the countess woke up, and Matrena Timofeevna, who had been her lady's maid before her marriage and now performed a sort of chief gendarme's duty for her, came to say that Madame Schoss was much offended and the young ladies' summer dresses could not be left behind.
Liza was lost in astonishment. She had never seen her shrewd and steady aunt in such a state before. "Very good, young lady!" Marfa Timofeevna began to whisper, with a broken and trembling voice. "Very good! Only who taught that, my mother Give me some water; I can't speak." "Do be calm, aunt. What is the matter?" said Liza, giving her a glass of water.
When Marfa Timofeevna came to see her old pupil, she produced a favorable impression on Varvara Pavlovna. But Varvara was not at all to the old lady's liking. Nor did the young mistress of the house get on comfortably with Glafira Petrovna. She herself would have been content to leave Glafira in peace, but the general was anxious to get his hand into the management of his son-in-law's affairs.
In the course of a few days Liza had become changed from what he remembered her to have been. In her movements, in her voice, even in her laugh itself, a secret uneasiness manifested itself something different from her former evenness of temper. Her mother, like a true egotist, did not suspect anything; but Marfa Timofeevna began to watch her favorite closely.
Liza, Liza!" exclaimed Lavretsky, "how happy we might have been!" Liza again looked up at him. "Now even you must see, Fedor Ivanovich, that happiness does not depend upon ourselves, but upon God." "Yes, because you " The door of the next room suddenly opened, and Marfa Timofeevna came in, holding her cap in her hand.
"Is she seriously inclined?" "Yes, Fedia, very much so. More than you or I, Fedia." "And do you mean to say you are not seriously inclined?" lisped Nastasia Carpovna. "If you have not gone to the early mass to-day, you will go to the later one." "Not a bit of it. Thou shalt go alone. I've grown lazy, my mother," answered Marfa Timofeevna. "I am spoiling myself terribly with tea drinking."
After that Agafia, although she had ceased to attend Liza, remained for some time longer in the house, and often saw her pupil, and treated her as she had been used to do. But when Marfa Timofeevna entered the Kalitines' house, Agafia did not get on well with her. Agafia obtained leave to go on a pilgrimage, and she never came back.
"Well, very good; do as you please. But you, Liza, ought to go down-stairs, I think. Ah! my dears. I've forgotten to give any seed to my bullfinch too. Wait a minute; I will be back directly." And Marfa Timofeevna ran out of the room without even having put on her cap. Lavretsky quickly drew near to Liza.
But as to your putting Panshine's nose out of joint, why I think you're a good girl for that. But don't go sitting out at night with men creatures. Don't make me wretched in my old age, and remember that I'm not altogether given over to fondling. I can bite, too A widower!" Marfa Timofeevna went away, and Liza sat down in a corner, and cried a long time. Her heart was heavy within her.
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