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Updated: June 4, 2025
At first nothing was to be heard; then Nikolai Artemyevitch's voice began to tune up, then a quarrel broke out, shouts were raised, even groans were discerned.... Already Shubin was plotting with the maids and Zoya to rush in to the rescue; but the uproar in the bedroom began by degrees to grow less, passed into quiet talk, and ceased.
Shubin ran on before them to announce their arrival. 'The conquering hero Insarov will be here directly! he shouted triumphantly, going into the Stahovs' drawing-room, where there happened at the instant to be only Elena and Zoya. 'Wer? inquired Zoya in German. When she was taken unawares she always used her native language. Elena drew herself up.
His housekeeper, a handsome woman of thirty, a Russian, wears silk dresses and gold rings and bracelets. Kurnatovsky, like every man of ardent temperament and dark complexion, a devoted admirer of pretty blondes, married Zoya; she is in complete subjection to him and has even given up thinking in German.
Even at the water's edge not a ripple stirred the smooth surface. One might fancy it a solid mass of glass lying heavy and shining in a huge font; the sky seemed to drop into its depths, while the leafy trees gazed motionless into its transparent bosom. All were absorbed in long and silent admiration of the view; even Shubin was still; even Zoya was impressed.
Derby arose and was about to leave when the duke stopped him. Masco sat down to talk with Zoya, and Scorpa spoke to Derby in an undertone. "I hear you are going to Sicily to-morrow?" "Yes, I leave early in the morning." "Take my advice" his glance was sinister "and stay away." Derby smiled frankly. "May I ask why?" "Because your process will not work."
"She has reason for looking disagreeable," announced the Contessa Zoya with a meaning laugh; but more she would not say. Giovanni leaned over Nina's chair. "Do you find the Romans attractive? How does our opera compare with that of New York?" "The house seems made of cardboard," Nina answered. "I never thought our opera houses especially wonderful " "No?" Giovanni rallied her.
Shubin suggested that they should sing some Russian song in chorus, and struck up: 'Down the river Volga'... Bersenyev, Zoya, and even Anna Vassilyevna, joined in Insarov could not sing but they did not keep together; at the third verse the singers were all wrong. Only Bersenyev tried to go on in the bass, 'Nothing on the waves is seen, but he, too, was soon in difficulties.
Nikolai Artemyevitch insisted on her not admitting her daughter to her presence; he seemed to be enjoying the opportunity of showing himself in the fullest sense the master of the house, with all the authority of the head of the family; he made an incessant uproar in the household, storming at the servants, and constantly saying: 'I will show you who I am, I will let you know you wait a little! While he was in the house, Anna Vassilyevna did not see Elena, and had to be content with Zoya, who waited on her very devotedly, but kept thinking to herself: 'Diesen Insarof vorziehen und wem? But directly Nikolai Artemyevitch went out and that happened pretty often, Augustina Christianovna had come back in sober earnest Elena went to her mother, and a long time her mother gazed at her in silence and in tears.
She presented him as though he were some inanimate personal possession. "We have been in Paris and Monte Carlo all winter. Got back yesterday. Nice old place, Rome, don't you think so? I dote on it, but of course it gets provincial if you stay too long!" At the same moment she caught sight of Zoya Olisco, and waved to her.
At the door she glanced back at Zoya with a half-questioning look, which the contessa answered by blowing her a kiss. That night the little sleep Nina was able to get was fitful and broken by dreams. The duke and his mother appeared to her as cuttlefish in a cave under perpendicular cliffs that ran into the sea.
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