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Updated: May 19, 2025
Platonov looked over all the persons sitting with a slow gaze, and suddenly, waving his hand despondently, said in a tired voice: "However ... The devil take it all! To-day I have spoken enough for ten years ... And all of it to no purpose." "But really, Sergei Ivanich, why shouldn't you try to describe all this yourself?" asked Yarchenko.
Having seated himself alongside of Yarchenko, he straight off began to play a new role he became something on the order of an old good soul of a landed proprietor, who had at one time been at a university himself, and now can not look upon the students without a quiet, fatherly emotion.
And before logic." "Phew-ew!" Lichonin let out a long-drawn whistle and chanted in a thin, dismal voice, nodding in time with his head hanging down to one side: "The philosopher is off on our usual stuff: 'A rope is a common cord." "Of course, there's nothing easier than to play the tom-fool," responded Yarchenko.
Let us condemn the hungry, petty thief who has stolen a five-kopeck loaf out of a tray, but if the director of a bank has squandered somebody else's million on race horses and cigars, let us mitigate his lot." "Pardon me, but I do not understand this comparison," answered Yarchenko with restraint. "However, it's all the same to me; let's go."
He was already pretty far gone in drink, stood leaning against the wall, in a provoking pose, and was nervously chewing a cigarette. "Which Ninka is this?" asked Yarchenko with curiosity. "Is she here?" "No, she isn't here. Such a small, pug-nosed little girl. Naive and very angry." The reporter suddenly and sincerely burst into laughter.
"Surely, it isn't more respectable to enjoy the caresses of your chambermaid, or to carry on an intrigue on the side with another man's wife? What am I to do if woman is indispensable to me!" "Eh, very indispensable indeed!" said Yarchenko with vexation and feebly made a despondent gesture. But here a student who was called Ramses in the friendly coterie intervened.
The food is filling and savory, although exceedingly greasy." "But how did you ever..." "Why, just because I was tutoring for high school a daughter of Anna Markovna, the lady of this hospitable house. Well, I stipulated that part of my monthly pay should be deducted for my dinners." "What a strange fancy!" said Yarchenko. "And did you do this of your own will?
"I swear it!" said Lichonin, putting up his hand. "I can vouch for myself," said Ramses. "And I! And I! By God, gentlemen, let's pledge our words ... Yarchenko is right," others took up. They seated themselves in twos and threes in the cabs the drivers of which had been long since following them in a file, grinning and cursing each other and rode off.
In his student days, and later, being retained at the university, Yarchenko had led the most wanton and crack-brained life. In all the taverns, cabarets, and other places of amusement his small, fat, roundish little figure, his rosy cheeks, puffed out like those of a painted cupid, and the shining, humid kindly eyes were well known, his hurried, spluttering speech and shrill laughter remembered.
Yarchenko interrupted him, mockingly and inimically. "And even so? A certain philosopher, whom it was desired to humiliate, was given a seat at dinner near the musicians.
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