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'The commander-in-chief cast an abstracted and sullen glance at him, growled angrily, "Well?" ... Yegor stood like a statue, showing his teeth as if he were grinning! Looking at him from the side, you'd say the fellow was laughing! 'Then the commander-in-chief jerked out: "Hang him!" spurred his horse, and moved on, first at a walking-pace, then at a quick trot.
And they took a mighty oath: on human blood. We went on another mile and a half; I began to feel thirsty. 'Sit down a little while, said Yegor: 'I will go for water; there is a well not far from here. He went away; I was left alone. I sat down on a felled stump, leaned my elbows on my knees, and after a long stillness, raised my head and looked around me.
But in vain Yegor pointed him out to me; however much I strained my eyes, I could not make him out. Yegor had to take a shot at him. We came upon two coveys of moorhens also. The cautious birds rose at a distance with an abrupt, heavy sound. We succeeded, however, in killing three young ones.
My acquaintance, as he repeated this, his servant's last words, murmured, 'My poor Yegor, dear fellow, a real saint! and the tears trickled down his old cheeks. August 1879. What shall I think when I come to die, if only I am in a condition to think anything then?
I shall be very glad to, Father, with all my heart. . . . More than that, I accept the proposition with enthusiasm." Kunin got up and walked about the study. "Of course, both Yegor Dmitrevitch and probably you, too, are aware that I have not great funds at my disposal. My estate is mortgaged, and I live exclusively on my salary as the permanent member.
"Well, but you yourself, Yegor, when you got married, did you love your wife?" "Ay! and why not?" responded Yegor. And Levin saw that Yegor too was in an excited state and intending to express all his most heartfelt emotions. "My life, too, has been a wonderful one. From a child up..." he was beginning with flashing eyes, apparently catching Levin's enthusiasm, just as people catch yawning.
As she said all this Pelagea laughed like a silly girl and looked up at Yegor's face. Her face was simply radiant with happiness. "Sit down? If you like..." said Yegor in a tone of indifference, and he chose a spot between two fir-trees. "Why are you standing? You sit down too." Pelagea sat a little way off in the sun and, ashamed of her joy, put her hand over her smiling mouth.
And you haven't paid for your rooms, either! . . . ." "Damn her! I'll pay." Yegor Savvitch got up and began walking to and fro. "I ought to be abroad!" he said. And the artist told her that nothing was easier than to go abroad. One need do nothing but paint a picture and sell it. "Of course!" Katya assented. "Why haven't you painted one in the summer?"
"They will bring back all the exiles from Siberia now and I expect brother Yegor will not be forgotten," he kept repeating, rubbing his hands, coughing and, at the same time, seeming rather nervous.
Ah, Yegor Vlassitch, Yegor Vlassitch! you might look in just once!" "What is there for me to do there?" "Of course there is nothing for you to do... though to be sure... there is the place to look after.... To see how things are going.... You are the master.... I say, you have shot a blackcock, Yegor Vlassitch! You ought to sit down and rest!"
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