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Updated: June 18, 2025
'I do pity him, but I'll have no nonsense. It is wrong. Ustenka suddenly dropped her head on her friend's breast, seized hold of her, and shook with smothered laughter. 'You silly fool! she exclaimed, quite out of breath. 'You don't want to be happy, and she began tickling Maryanka. 'Oh, leave off! said Maryanka, screaming and laughing. 'You've crushed Lazutka. 'Hark at those young devils!
Olenin followed her with his eyes as long as she was in the hut, and then looked at the door and waited, understanding nothing of what Granny Ulitka was telling him. A few minutes later some visitors arrived: an old man, Granny Ulitka's brother, with Daddy Eroshka, and following them came Maryanka and Ustenka. 'Good evening, squeaked Ustenka. 'Still on holiday? she added, turning to Olenin.
A little later Ustenka entered and solemnly invited her visitors to come in: announcing that all was ready. When they came into the room they saw that everything was really ready. Ustenka was rearranging the cushions along the wall. On the table, which was covered by a disproportionately small cloth, was a decanter of chikhir and some dried fish. The room smelt of dough and grapes.
Although that question had long been answered in the negative in his own mind, he hoped he would be able to tell her all he felt, and that she would understand him. 'Why did you not tell me sooner? said Beletski. 'I would have got Ustenka to arrange it for you. You are such a queer fellow! ... 'What's to be done! ... Some day, very soon, I'll tell you all about it.
'And I've been told that they will dig a pit to put the girls in because they don't love the lads, said Nazarka, approaching Ustenka; and he again made a whimsical gesture which set everybody laughing, and Ergushov, passing by Maryanka, who was next in turn, began to embrace an old woman. 'Why don't you hug Maryanka? You should do it to each in turn, said Nazarka.
Only now, for Heaven's sake, arrange so that she should come to Ustenka's. 'All right, that's easily done! Well, Maryanka, will you belong to the "fair-faced lad", and not to Lukashka? said Beletski, speaking to Maryanka first for propriety's sake, but having received no reply he went up to Ustenka and begged her to bring Maryanka home with her.
'Why should I! answered Maryanka. Both the girls started running. Olenin went on by himself thinking over all that had happened. He had spent the whole evening alone with her in a corner by the oven. Ustenka had not left the hut for a single moment, but had romped about with the other girls and with Beletski all the time. Olenin had talked in whispers to Maryanka.
The girls grabbed his sweetmeats from him, and, laughing, struggled for them among themselves. Beletski and Olenin stepped aside. Lukashka, as if ashamed of his generosity, took off his cap and wiping his forehead with his sleeve came up to Maryanka and Ustenka.
He was devising an excuse to get out and run away when Beletski announced that Ustenka, whose saint's day it was, must offer chikhir to everybody with a kiss. She consented on condition that they should put money on her plate, as is the custom at weddings. 'What fiend brought me to this disgusting feast? thought Olenin, rising to go away. 'Where are you off to?
He stopped once or twice, listening to the ringing laughter of Maryanka and Ustenka who, having come together, were shouting something. Olenin spent the whole evening hunting in the forest and returned home at dusk without having killed anything. When crossing the road he noticed her open the door of the outhouse, and her blue smock showed through it.
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