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Shurochka burst into a laugh she was unable to stifle, and ran out of the room. Lavretsky also rose from his seat. "Yes," he said slowly; "one cannot fathom a girl's heart." As he was going to take leave. "Well; shall we see you soon?" asked Marfa Timofeevna. "Perhaps, aunt. It's no great distance to where I'm going." "Yes; you're going, no doubt, to Vasilievskoe. You won't live at Lavriki.
All that night long Marfa Timofeevna sat watching by Liza's bedside. Lavretsky spent a day and a half at Vasilievskoe, wandering about the neighborhood almost all the time. He could not remain long in any one place. His grief goaded him on. He experienced all the pangs of a ceaseless, impetuous, and impotent longing.
Lavretsky sat upright and opened his eyes wide. On the slope before him extended a small village. A little to the right was to be seen an old manor house of modest dimensions, its shutters closed, its portico awry. On one side stood a barn built of oak, small, but well preserved. The wide court-yard was entirely overgrown by nettles, as green and thick as hemp. This was Vasilievskoe.
You're just like your dear mother," she continued, turning anew to Lavretsky, "only you always had your father's nose, and you have it still. Well, shall you stay here long?" "I go away to-morrow, aunt." "To where?". "To my house at Vasilievskoe." "To-morrow?" "To-morrow." "Well, if it must be to-morrow, so be it. God be with you! You know what is best for yourself.
It was not for nothing that she told me she was afraid of me. And as to her not being in love with Panshine that is but a poor consolation!" Lavretsky went to Vasilievskoe; but he could not manage to spend even four days there so wearisome did it seem to him. Moreover, he was tormented by suspense.
He stopped short, and turned away in confusion. Lavretsky uttered a forced laugh. Then he too turned away from his companion, and began looking out along the road. The stars had already begun to grow pale, and the sky to turn grey, when the carriage arrived before the steps of the little house at Vasilievskoe.
For some time he spoke in a whisper to Apraxia, sighing low at intervals, and three times he crossed himself. The old servants had never expected that their master would settle down among them at Vasilievskoe, when he had such a fine estate, with a well-appointed manor-house close by.
Panshine began by complimenting Lavretsky, giving him an account of the rapture with which, according to him, all the Kalitine family had spoken of Vasilievskoe; then, according to his custom, adroitly bringing the conversation round to himself, he began to speak of his occupations, of his views concerning life, the world, and the service; said a word or two about the future of Russia, and about the necessity of holding the Governors of provinces in hand; joked facetiously about himself in that respect, and added that he, among others, had been entrusted at St.
Two days later, Maria Dmitrievna arrived at Vasilievskoe, according to her promise, and all her young people with her. The little girls immediately ran into the garden, but Maria Dmitrievna languidly walked through the house, and languidly praised all she saw. She looked upon her visit to Lavretsky as a mark of great condescension, almost a benevolent action.
An hour later he was already on the road to Vasilievskoe, and two hours later Varvara Pavlovna ordered the best carriage on hire in the town to be got for her, put on a simple straw hat with a black veil, and a modest mantilla, left Justine in charge of Ada, and went to the Kalitines'. From the inquiries Justine had made, Madame Lavretsky had learnt that her husband was in the habit of going there every day.
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