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Who asked you to come here? You fusty, musty, black-faced villain with a moustache like a beetle's!" Here Pufka indicated with her thick short fingers what his moustache was like; while Nurse Vassilievna's toothless mouth was convulsed with laughter, re-echoed in the adjoining room. "I am not in a position to judge you," Markelov went on.
"Mine? with Vera Vassilievna's? Please tell me what the talk is." When Tatiana Markovna had told the story he asked what she wished him to do. "You must clear yourself," she said. "You have been beyond reproach all your life, and must be again. As soon as Marfinka's wedding is over I shall settle on my estate at Novosselovo for good.
"That would depend on Vera Vassilievna's wishes. There is a mistress of the house who commands her servants. I take it that you accept the facts." "The devil knows," cried Mark, "how ridiculous all this is. Mankind have forged chains for themselves, and make martyrs of themselves." Although he still justified himself in making no reply, he felt that his position was untenable.
Only, for God's sake, don't betray me." "I won't betray you. Tell me what there is in the kitchen." "The whole supper is there. As you did not come, no one ate anything. There is sturgeon in jelly, turkey, all on ice." "Bring it, and what about wine?" "There is a bottle in the sideboard, and the fruit liqueurs are in Marfa Vassilievna's room." "Be careful not to wake her." "She sleeps soundly.
Even the tedious old man, Tatiana Vassilievna's husband, was friendly to him, and both the silent girls were soon quite at home with him. I noticed that Varvara was readier to sit by him and listen than her sister, though she certainly did not understand much; literature was not in her line.
At Treppel's three roubles are taken for a visit, and for the whole night, ten. Three of the two-rouble establishments Sophie Vassilievna's, The Old Kiev, and Anna Markovna's are somewhat worse, somewhat poorer. The remaining houses on Great Yamskaya are rouble ones; they are furnished still worse.
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