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"Now that's a businesslike question," answered Ostrov, with a hoarse laugh, "very much a business question, not so much a gracious as a businesslike question. What do I want? In the first place, I am delighted to see you. There is a certain bond between us our childhood and all the rest of it." "I'm very glad," said Trirodov dryly. "I doubt it," responded Ostrov impudently.
There was a slight rustle behind the door. It seemed as if the whole house were filled with the quiet children. Trirodov sealed the letter. He wished to take it at once and leave it on the sill of her open window. He walked quietly, immersed in the wood's darkness and his feet felt the contact of warm moss, the dew-wet grass, and the simple, rough, beloved earth.
"Dulcinea is loved," said Elisaveta, "but the fullness of life belongs to Aldonza becoming Dulcinea." "But does Aldonza want that?" asked Trirodov. "She wants it, but cannot realize it," said Elisaveta. "But we will help her, we will teach her." Trirodov smiled affectionately if sadly and said: "But he, like the eternal Don Juan, always seeks Dulcinea.
The incendiaries were to be "students," discharged from the factories on account of the strikes. The peasants believed the announcement. In some of the villages watchmen were engaged to catch the incendiaries at night. Ostrov began to play a noticeable role in town. He quickly squandered the money he received from Trirodov in drink and in other ways.
They scampered off so quietly that they barely made a sound even when they brushed against the twigs; they vanished as though they had not been there. The sisters listened to Trirodov as they walked, pausing often to admire the beauties of the garden its trees, lawns, ponds, islands, its quietly murmuring fountains, its picturesque arbours, its profusely gay flower-beds.
Little by little Matov grew candid, and began to boast of his connexions with the police, and of the great number of people he had skilfully betrayed. The door leading to the next room was hung with draperies. Three people were hiding in that room Trirodov, Ostrov, and the young working man Krovlin. They were listening. Krovlin was intensely excited.
Ostrov fell back into his chair. His red face became tinged with a sudden grey pallor. His eyes, now bloodshot, half closed like those of a prostrate doll with the eye mechanism in its stomach. There was witheredness, almost lifelessness, in Ostrov's voice: "Poltinin." "Your friend?" asked Trirodov. "Well, go on." "He is now being sought for," went on Ostrov in the same lifeless way.
"And what is necessary?" asked Elisaveta. "I don't know," answered Trirodov sadly. "What do you desire?" she asked again. "Perhaps I desire nothing," said Trirodov. "There are moments when I seem to expect nothing from life; I do what I do unwillingly, as if it were a disagreeable action." "How do you live then?" asked Elisaveta in astonishment. He replied: "I live in a strange and unreal world.
"They will remain pupils here," said Trirodov, "until they are ready for practical work or for scientific and artistic occupations. Then some of them will go to technical schools, others to universities. Why, then, should they have certificates for a course in a Primary School?" Shabalov repeated dully and stubbornly: "Things are not done that way. Your school is counted among the Primary Schools.
"It's the gospels that you ought to read," he replied, as he looked attentively and austerely at Elisaveta, his glance taking in her entire figure from her flushed face down to her feet. "Why the gospels?" asked Trirodov, who suddenly grew morose. He appeared to be pondering over something, and unable to decide; his indecision seemed to torment him.
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