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"And here's a third point for you, Lichonin. You prompted it yourself. They lie most of all when they are asked: 'How did you come to such a life? But what right have you to ask her about that, may the devil take you! For she does not push her way into your intimate life? She doesn't interest herself with your first, 'holy' love or the virtue of your sisters and your bride. Aha! You pay money?
The tobacco smoke swirled in blue, layered shrouds, but a ray of sunlight that had cut its way through the heart-shaped hollow in a window shutter, transpierced the cabinet obliquely with a joyous, golden sword of dust, and in liquid, hot gold splashed upon the paper on the wall. "That's better," said Lichonin, sitting down.
You've begun something big and splendid, Lichonin. The prince told me about it during the night. Well, what of it, that's what youth is for to commit sacred follies. Give me the bottle, Alexandra, I'll open it myself, or else you'll rupture yourself and burst a vein. To a new life, Liubochka, pardon me ... Liubov ... Liubov ..." "Nikonovna. But call me just as it comes ... Liuba."
Why, this is an all night affair ..." spoke another with a false prudence and an insincere fatigue. And a third said through a feigned yawn: "Let's better go home, gentlemen ... a-a-a ... go bye-bye ... That's enough for to-day." "You won't work any wonders when you're asleep," Lichonin remarked sneeringly. "Herr professor, are you coming?"
"Very, very gladly," affably answered Platonov and suddenly looked at Lichonin with a radiant, almost child-like smile, which beautified his plain face with the prominent cheek-bones. "You, too, appealed to me from the first. And even when I saw you there, at Doroshenko's, I at once thought that you are not at all as rough as you seem."
And immediately Liubka would appear before him, appear at a distance, as though out of the misty depths of time; awkward, timid, with her homely and endearing face, which had at once come to seem of infinitely close kinship; long, long familiar, and at the same time unpleasant unjustly, without cause. "Can it be that I'm a coward and a rag?" cried Lichonin inwardly and wrung his hands.
And also that the prostitute must not allow herself the caresses of love when in an intoxicated condition or with an intoxicated man; and in addition to that, during the time of certain functions. Here also the prostitutes were most strictly forbidden to commit abortions. "What a serious and moral view of things!" reflected Lichonin with a malicious sneer.
"This faith in a high ideal, these honest impulses! ... What can be loftier and purer than our Russian students as a body? ... KELLNER! Chompa-a-agne!" he yelled deafeningly all of a sudden, and dealt a heavy blow on the table with his fist. Lichonin and Yarchenka did not wish to remain in debt to him. A spree began. There also appeared Roly-Poly, who had awakened.
Recall, Lichonin, how difficult the transition from arithmetic to algebra was for us, when we were compelled to replace common numerals with letters, and did not know why this was done. Or why did they teach us grammar, instead of simply advising us to write tales and verses?"
The extravagant delirium of large cities, or an eternal historical phenomenon? Will it cease some time? Or will it die only with the death of all mankind? Who will answer me that?" Platonov was looking at him intently, narrowing his eyes slightly, through habit. He wanted to know what main thought was inflicting such sincere torture on Lichonin. "When it will cease, none will tell you.
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