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Vassily Ivanitch was more fussy than ever; he was obviously trying to put a good face on it, talked loudly, and stamped with his feet, but his face looked haggard, and his eyes were continually avoiding his son. Arina Vlasyevna was crying quietly; she was utterly crushed, and could not have controlled herself at all if her husband had not spent two whole hours early in the morning exhorting her.
'Here, he cried, 'though we do live in the wilds, we have something to make merry with on festive occasions! He filled three champagne glasses and a little wineglass, proposed the health of 'our inestimable guests, and at once tossed off his glass in military fashion; while he made Arina Vlasyevna drink her wineglass to the last drop.
'He has cast us off; he has forsaken us, he faltered; 'forsaken us; he was dull with us. Alone, alone! he repeated several times. Then Arina Vlasyevna went up to him, and, leaning her grey head against his grey head, said, 'There's no help for it, Vasya! A son is a separate piece cut off.
Arina Vlasyevna was very kindhearted, and in her way not at all stupid.
'What are you doing! protested Anna Sergyevna; but Arina Vlasyevna did not heed her, while Vassily Ivanovitch could only repeat, 'An angel! an angel! 'Wo ist der Kranke? and where is the patient? said the doctor at last, with some impatience. Vassily Ivanovitch recovered himself. 'Here, here, follow me, würdigster Herr Collega, he added through old associations.
And now I hope, Arina Vlasyevna, that having satisfied your maternal heart, you will turn your thoughts to satisfying the appetites of our dear guests, because, as you're aware, even nightingales can't be fed on fairy tales. The old lady got up from her chair. 'This minute, Vassily Ivanovitch, the table shall be laid.
You must not imagine that I am inviting you to attend this thanksgiving it is over indeed now; but Father Alexey ... 'The village parson? 'Well, yes, the priest; he ... is to dine ... with us.... I did not anticipate this, and did not even approve of it ... but it somehow came about ... he did not understand me.... And, well ... Arina Vlasyevna ... Besides, he's a worthy, reasonable man.
He was pleased too on returning to find the man sent by Kitty with a note was already there. "I am perfectly well and happy. If you were uneasy about me, you can feel easier than ever. I've a new bodyguard, Marya Vlasyevna," this was the midwife, a new and important personage in Levin's domestic life. "She has come to have a look at me.
Towards morning he was a little easier. He asked for Arina Vlasyevna to comb his hair, kissed her hand, and swallowed two gulps of tea. Vassily Ivanovitch revived a little. 'Thank God! he kept declaring; 'the crisis is coming, the crisis is at hand! 'There, to think now! murmured Bazarov; 'what a word can do! He's found it; he's said "crisis," and is comforted.
Over Lisa she had little influence; all the stronger was the influence on her of her nurse, Agafya Vlasyevna. This woman's story was remarkable. She came of a peasant family. She was married at sixteen to a peasant; but she was strikingly different from her peasant sisters. Her father had been twenty years starosta, and had made a good deal of money, and he spoiled her.
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