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Updated: May 6, 2025
And at the same time I remember the frantic ecstasy which almost distorted her face an ecstasy almost too great for any human being to bear. Perhaps both were there, both the terror and the ecstasy. "You should not be here," Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch said to her in a caressing and melodious voice; and there was the light of an extraordinary tenderness in his eyes.
I saw Mavriky Nikolaevitch bend over her from behind; he seemed to mean to whisper something to her, but evidently changed his intention and drew himself up quickly, looking round at every one with a guilty air. Mkolay Vsyevolodovitch too excited curiosity; his face was paler than usual and there was a strangely absent-minded look in his eyes.
The utterly unexpected arrival of Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch, who was not expected for another month, was not only strange from its unexpectedness but from its fateful coincidence with the present moment. Even the captain remained standing like a post in the middle of the room with his mouth wide open, staring at the door with a fearfully stupid expression.
It was at that time, it seems, that he made acquaintance with this gentleman here." "Take care, Liputin. I warn you, Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch meant to be here soon himself, and he knows how to defend himself." "Why warn me? I am the first to cry out that he is a man of the most subtle and refined intelligence, and I quite reassured Varvara Petrovna yesterday on that score.
Again they advanced, again Gaganov missed and Stavrogin fired into the air. There might have been a dispute as to his firing into the air. Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch might have flatly declared that he'd fired properly, if he had not admitted that he had missed intentionally.
And, behold, from the next room a very large and long apartment came the sound of swiftly approaching footsteps, little, exceedingly rapid steps; some one seemed to be running, and that some one suddenly flew into the drawing-room, not Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch, but a young man who was a complete stranger to all.
"Why, Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch! Surely this isn't the first you've heard of it! But his luggage must have been here a long while, anyway. How is it you weren't told? Then I'm the first to bring the news. One might send out to look for him; he's sure to be here himself directly though.
Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch would, perhaps, have looked down on L n, and have called him a boastful cock-a-hoop coward; it's true he wouldn't have expressed himself aloud.
Do you know, Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch, since I've been with you I've discovered that you are very generous to me, and it's just that I can't endure from you." He got up from his seat and took a few steps about the room. "Very well, perhaps it was bound to end so.... But how can it all have happened?" "That's a question to worry about!
I'm what matters most!... Perhaps you're joking, Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch?" "No, I'm not joking." "As you will, Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch, but I don't believe you.... Then I'll take proceedings." "You're fearfully stupid, captain." "Maybe, but this is all that's left me," said the captain, losing his head completely.
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