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'Why are you preening and prinking? says I. 'I am ready to do anything to please you, Tit Vassilitch! That's a way of going on! And she dressed up like a regular fashion book!" "And what is a fashion book?" the younger one asked. He obviously regarded the other as an authority.
Putting on his boots and his dressing-gown, Pavel Vassilitch, crumpled and frowning from sleepiness, comes out of his bedroom into the dining-room; on his entrance another cat, engaged in sniffing a marinade of fish in the window, jumps down to the floor, and hides behind the cupboard. "Who asked you to sniff that!" he says angrily, covering the fish with a sheet of newspaper.
I had a bed put up for him in my room.... Well, we went to bed, smoked, chatted about the fair sex for the most part, as is only suitable in bachelor company we laughed, of course; I saw Vassily Vassilitch put out his candle and turn his back towards me: as much as to say: 'Good night. I waited a little, then I, too, put out my candle.
And she rolled the r so impressively that Mushka invariably answered from under a chair, "Rrr . . . nga-nga-nga . . . !" On this occasion at tea the argument began with Nikitin's mentioning the school examinations. "Excuse me, Sergey Vassilitch," Varya interrupted him. "You say it's difficult for the boys. And whose fault is that, let me ask you?
"Since that is how it is, lay the supper quickly," Pavel Vassilitch cries in a fluster. "Anna, why are you sitting there, silly? Make haste and lay the table." Pelageya Ivanovna clasps her hands and runs into the kitchen with an expression as though the house were on fire. "Make haste, make haste," is heard all over the house. "Styopotchka is sleepy. Anna! Oh dear me, what is one to do?
He dined with me on what luck provided and dropped some fifty roubles for his visit; night came on, it was time for him to be off. But I had my own idea. 'Stay the night with me, I said, 'Vassily Vassilitch; tomorrow, please God, you will win it back. Vassily Vassilitch considered and stayed.
She looked anxiously at him and at Count Nulin and said: "You must hold him all the time on the curb, Sergey Vassilitch. Don't let him shy. He's pretending." And either because her Giant was very friendly with Count Nulin, or perhaps by chance, she rode all the time beside Nikitin, as she had done the day before, and the day before that.
His name was Ivan Vassilitch Potchatkin, and he came from Kashira. Now, congratulating Laptev, he expressed himself as follows: "It's the reward of valour, for the female heart is a strong opponent." Another important person in the warehouse was a clerk called Makeitchev a stout, solid, fair man with whiskers and a perfectly bald head.
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