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Schafroff jumped up, nearly dragging the cloth off the table as he seized Yourii's hand, and murmured effusively: "How awfully good of you to come! I am so glad! Really, it's most kind of you! Thank you ever so much!" Yourii as he took a seat between Sanine and Peter Ilitsch, proceeded to look about him.
They all laughed, and there were tears of mirth in Yourii's eyes, so absurd did the little man seem with his tufted grey beard and his sunken jaws. The old fellow laughed, too, till his little eyes watered. "Very nearly killed myself! He! He!" In the darkness, and beyond the circle of light, one could hear laughter, and the voices of girls whom shyness had kept at a distance.
Formerly the fellow posed as a pessimist, disgusted with life and bent upon airing impossible views of his own; now, he's trifling with animalism." From Sanine Yourii's thoughts reverted to himself. He came to the conclusion that he trifled with nothing but that his thoughts, his sufferings, his whole personality, were original, and quite different from those of other men.
The lamp burned low, and its faint light illumined Yourii's bowed head, as he leant across the table. "Why didn't I die when I was a boy and had inflammation of the lungs? I should now be happy, and at rest." He shivered at the thought. "In that case I should not have seen or known all that now I know. That would have been just as dreadful." Yourii tossed back his head, and rose.
Though Yourii thought Riasantzeff was little better than a brute to himself, he was glad to hear the latter abuse Sanine to Sina when she defended him. However, as she noticed Yourii's look of annoyance, she said no more. Secretly, she was much pleased by Sanine's strength and pluck, and was quite unwilling to accept Riasantzeff's denouncement of duelling as just.
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