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Updated: June 5, 2025
And you imagine I shall let the matter rest, that I shall not make a complaint, that I will allow you that you that To the nunnery with you, and he shall go to prison, to hard labour! Anna Vassilyevna, inform her at once that you will cut off her inheritance! 'Nikolai Artemyevitch, for God's sake, moaned Anna Vassilyevna. 'And when and how was this done? Who married you? where? how?
Anna Vassilyevna blew her nose tearfully. Nikolai Artemyevitch thrust his fingers between his coat-buttons. 'I sent for you, Elena Nikolaevna, he began after a protracted silence, 'in order to have an explanation with you, or rather in order to ask you for an explanation.
'To Little Russia, I suppose you mean? 'For shame, Andrei Petrovitch, to reproach me for an act of unpremeditated folly, which I have repented bitterly enough without that. Oh, of course, I behaved like a fool; Anna Vassilyevna most kindly gave me the money for an expedition to Italy, and I went off to the Little Russians to eat dumplings and
'Who is his father? inquired Anna Vassilyevna. 'His father? His father is a man well-known in his own line, of the highest moral character, un vrai stoicien, a retired major, I think, overseer of all the estates of the Count B 'Ah! observed Anna Vassilyevna. 'Ah! why ah? interposed Nikolai Artemyevitch. 'Can you be infected with prejudice?
Anna Vassilyevna, as the reader knows already, liked staying at home; but at times she manifested, quite unexpectedly, an irresistible longing for something out of the common, some extraordinary partie du plaisir, and the more troublesome the partie du plaisir was, the more preparations and arrangements it required, and the greater Anna Vassilyevna's own agitation over it, the more pleasure it gave her.
'Darya always leaves it about somewhere, said Anna Vassilyevna, and she walked away with a rustle of silk skirts. Shubin was about to follow her, but he stopped on hearing Uvar Ivanovitch's drawling voice behind him. 'I would... have given it you... young puppy, the retired cornet brought out in gasps. Shubin went up to him. 'And what have I done, then, most venerable Uvar Ivanovitch?
'I did not at all... with that idea, rejoined Nikolai Artemyevitch, still as before avoiding Shubin's eyes. 'However, I will readily forgive you, for, as you know, I am not an exacting person. 'Oh, that admits of no doubt! said Shubin. 'But allow me to be inquisitive; is Anna Vassilyevna aware precisely what constituted my offence?
She felt that she reddened; she realised at the same time that she ought to express regret at the sudden departure of such a pleasant acquaintance; but she could not force herself to hypocrisy, and continued to sit without stirring or speaking, while Anna Vassilyevna sighed and lamented.
Zoya came in and sat down facing Nikolai Artemyevitch. He grunted, sank into an armchair, asked for coffee, and only then took off his hat. Coffee was brought him; he drank a cup, and looking at everybody in turn, he growled between his teeth, 'Sortes, s'il vous plait, and turning to his wife he added, 'et vous, madame, restez, je vous prie. They all left the room, except Anna Vassilyevna.
Insarov was, in fact, turning to take leave of Anna Vassilyevna; Elena hastily rose and called him aside to the window. The priest's wife was surprised, and tried to turn round; but she was so tightly laced that her stays creaked at every movement, and she stayed where she was.
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