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Sometimes there occurred a piece of political information, as follows: "About the French tigers there is somehow silence" and close by, "In the Moscow Gazette there is an announcement of the decease of the First-Major Mikhail Petrovich Kolychef. Is not this the son of Peter Vasilievich Kolychef?" Lavretsky also found some old calendars and dream-books, and the mystical work of M. Ambodik.
He did so now. "Take my own case. My whole life was moulded, not by environment, but by something quite different." "By what, then?" we asked. "Oh, that is a long story. I should have to tell you about a great many things to make you understand." "Well, tell us then." Ivan Vasilievich thought a little, and shook his head. "My whole life," he said, "was changed in one night, or, rather, morning."
You must have been conscious, not only of your own existence, but of hers," said one of the party. Ivan Vasilievich cried out, almost shouting in anger: "There you are, moderns all over! Nowadays you think of nothing but the body. It was different in our day. The more I was in love the less corporeal was she in my eyes. Nowadays you think of nothing but the body. It was different in our day.
In the village, while a cow is sold for payment, the police inspector is bribed by a factory owner, who thus escapes taxes altogether. And again a village court scene, and a sentence carried into execution the lash! "Ilia Vasilievich, could you not spare me that?" "No." The peasant burst into tears. "Well, of course, Christ suffered, and He bids us suffer too." Then other scenes.
But I believe it is all chance. Take my own case . . ." Thus spoke our excellent friend, Ivan Vasilievich, after a conversation between us on the impossibility of improving individual character without a change of the conditions under which men live.
"Why, what happened?" one of us asked. "What happened was that I was very much in love. I have been in love many times, but this was the most serious of all. It is a thing of the past; she has married daughters now. It was Varinka B ." Ivan Vasilievich mentioned her surname.
I don't mean only the military service: I did not enter the Civil Service either. And so I have been of no use whatever, as you can see." "Yes, we know how useless you've been," said one of us. "Tell us, rather, how many people would be of any use at all if it hadn't been for you." "Oh, that's utter nonsense," said Ivan Vasilievich, with genuine annoyance. "Well; and what about the love affair?
It might indeed have been deterring had it not been for her smile, which was always gay and cordial, and for the charming light in her eyes and for her youthful sweetness." "What an entrancing description you give, Ivan Vasilievich!" "Description, indeed! I could not possibly describe her so that you could appreciate her.
Nobody had actually said that one could not of oneself understand good and evil; but it was a habit of Ivan Vasilievich to answer in this way the thoughts aroused in his own mind by conversation, and to illustrate those thoughts by relating incidents in his own life. He often quite forgot the reason for his story in telling it; but he always told it with great sincerity and feeling.
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