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Darya Mihailovna spoke carelessly and listened with an air of indifference; but it was perfectly evident to Rudin that she was laying herself out to please him, even to flatter him. It was not for nothing that she had arranged this morning interview, and had dressed so simply yet elegantly a la Madame Recamier! But Darya Mihailovna soon left off questioning him.
'Yes, he is rich, though he dresses shockingly, and drives in a racing droshky like a bailiff. I have been anxious to get him to come here; he is spoken of as clever; I have some business with him.... You know I manage my property myself. Rudin bowed assent. 'Yes; I manage it myself, Darya Mihailovna continued.
'Darya Mihailovna is mistaken, he said in an unsteady voice, 'I do not only attack women; I am not a great admirer of the whole human species. 'What can have given you such a poor opinion of them? inquired Rudin. Pigasov looked him straight in the face. 'The study of my own heart, no doubt, in which I find every day more and more that is base. I judge of others by myself.
"You are insulting me," Valentina Mihailovna whispered. "Be kind enough to leave the room!" But Mariana could no longer contain herself. "Your household, you said, all your household, Anna Zaharovna and everybody knows of my behaviour! And every one is horrified and indignant... But am I asking anything of you, of all these people? Do you think I care for their good opinion?
"Is it not a fact? In that case she behaved very foolishly today. I can imagine how concerned she must have been, and how she tried to cast her wary nets!" Nejdanov did not utter a word, but looked at his companion sideways. "Listen," she continued, "it's no use pretending; I don't like Valentina Mihailovna, and you know that well enough. I may seem unjust... but I want you to hear me first "
'Really, she began, 'what queer ideas you always have! Natalya is still a child; and besides, if there were anything in what you say, do you suppose Darya Mihailovna 'Darya Mihailovna is an egoist to begin with, and lives for herself; and then she is so convinced of her own skill in educating her children that it does not even enter her head to feel uneasy about them.
'Precisely so, precisely so, rejoined the young man with a radiant face, 'from Darya Mihailovna. Darya Mihailovna sent me to you; I preferred to walk.... It's such a glorious morning, and the distance is only three miles. When I arrived, you were not at home. Your brother told me you had gone to Semenovka; and he was just going out to the fields; so you see I walked with him to meet you.
"But ours is a paper-mill, not a spinning-mill," Valentina Mihailovna remarked. "It's all the same, my dear, machines are used in both, and he's a mechanic." "But supposing he turns out to be a specialist!" "My dear! In the first place there are no such things as specialists in Russia; in the second, I've told you that he's a mechanic!" Valentina Mihailovna smiled. "Do be careful, my dear.
"Do you really intend going to town, Boris?" Valentina Mihailovna asked. "I feel absolutely certain," Kollomietzev continued, "that that tutor, Mr. Nejdanov, is mixed up in this. J'en mettrais ma main au feu. It's all one gang! Haven't they seized him? Don't you know?" Sipiagin waved his wrist again. "I don't know and don't want to know!
Yulia Mihailovna set the greatest value on her relations with the "higher spheres," which were few and maintained with difficulty, and was, no doubt, pleased to get the old lady's letter, but still there was something peculiar about it. She even forced her husband upon a familiar footing with Pyotr Stepanovitch, so much so that Mr. von Lembke complained of it... but of that, too, later.
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