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Lavretsky spent a day and a half at Vassilyevskoe, and employed almost all the time in wandering about the neighbourhood. He could not stop long in one place: he was devoured by anguish; he was torn unceasingly by impotent violent impulses.
Lavretsky laughed constrainedly, and also turned away and began gazing at the road. The stars had begun to grow paler and the sky had turned grey when the carriage drove up to the steps of the little house in Vassilyevskoe. Lavretsky conducted his guest to the room prepared for him, returned to his study and sat down before the window.
You are wrong in thinking but don't you like Vladimir Nikolaitch?" "No, I don't." "Why?" "I think he has no heart." "What makes you think he has no heart?" "I may be mistaken time will show, however." Lisa grew thoughtful. Lavretsky began to talk to her about his daily life at Vassilyevskoe.
Panshin began with compliments to Lavretsky, with a description of the rapture in which, according to him, the whole family of Marya Dmitrievna! spoke of Vassilyevskoe; and then, according to his custom, passing neatly to himself, began to talk about his pursuits, and his views on life, the world and government service; uttered a sentence or two upon the future of Russia, and the duty of rulers to keep a strict hand over the country; and at this point laughed light-heartedly at his own expense, and added that among other things he had been intrusted in Petersburg with the duty de poplariser l'idee du cadastre.
"Perhaps he is right, after all," he thought as he went back into the house; "perhaps I am a loafer." Many of Mihalevitch's words had sunk irresistibly into his heart, though he had disputed and disagreed with him. If a man only has a good heart, no one can resist him. Two days later, Marya Dmitrievna visited Vassilyevskoe according to her promise, with all her young people.
Lavretsky walked round the garden in the faint hope of meeting Lisa, but he saw no one. He came back two hours later and received the same answer, accompanied by a rather dubious look from the footman. Lavretsky thought it would be unseemly to call for a third time the same day, and he decided to drive over to Vassilyevskoe, where he had business moreover.
She meant it when she said that I frightened her. But she doesn't love Panshin either a poor consolation!" Lavretsky went back to Vassilyevskoe, but he could not get through four days there so dull it seemed to him. He was also in agonies of suspense; the news announced by M. Jules required confirmation, and he had received no letters of any kind.
Lavretsky stayed a few days in O before going to take up his residence, as he proposed doing, at Vassilyevskoe, a small estate of his some twenty miles distant. Mounting the steps of Kalitin's house to say good-bye before departing, he met Elizabeth coming down. "Where are you going?" he asked. "To service. It is Sunday." "Why do you go to church?" Lisa looked at him in silent amazement.
Lavretsky lived alone at Vassilyevskoe, and often rode into O to see his cousins. He saw a good deal of Lisa's music-master, an old German named Christopher Theodor Lemm, and, finding much in common with him, invited him to stay for a few days. "Maestro," said Lavretsky one morning at breakfast, "you will soon have to compose a triumphal cantata." "On what occasion?"
Anton remained up after all the rest of the household; he was whispering a long while with Apraxya, he sighed in an undertone, and twice he crossed himself; they had neither of them expected that their master would settle among them at Vassilyevskoe when he had not far off such a splendid estate with such a capitally built house; they did not suspect that the very house was hateful to Lavretsky; it stirred painful memories within him.
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