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"Idiot!" But the lady's manner toward the servant was far friendlier than toward her husband. Semyonov had it in his power to perform important services for her, while the captain had not come up to her expectations. "Listen, Semyonov, how do you and the doctor's men get along together? Are you friendly?" "Yes, your Excellency." "Intolerable!" cried the lady, jumping up.
When we, all of us, Marie Ivanovna, Semyonov, Nikitin and the rest, were ready we should move out into the forest, would stand, a vast company, with our dogs and horses.... Why, it was Trenchard's dream that I was seeing! I was merely repeating to myself his own imaginations and with that I had suddenly, as though some one had hypnotised me, fallen back into a heavy dreamless sleep.
I know that I saw Boris, and the Rat, and Vera, and Semyonov, and Markovitch, appearing, vanishing, reappearing, and that I was strongly conscious that the submerged and ruined world did not touch them, and was only a background to their own individual activities.... I know that Markovitch seemed to come to me again and cry, "Be patient... be patient.... Have faith... be faithful!"
Semyonov wished us to start and had sent us a guide; the wagons were ready. At that instant, whence I know not, for the first time that day, excitement leapt upon me.
Well, that's the Alliance in very truth ... yes.... How's London, gentlemen? Yes, golubchik, that small tin the grey one. No, durak, the small one. Dr. Semyonov sent a message. Pray make yourselves comfortable, but don't raise your heads. They may turn their minds in this direction at any moment again. We've had them once already this afternoon. That you, Ivan Leontievitch?
I was in our sitting-room now, pitch dark because shutters had been placed outside the windows to guard against bullets. I stood there in my shirt and drawers: shuddering, shivering with hatred of myself, shivering with fear of Semyonov, shivering above all, with a desperate, agonising, torturing hunger for Marie. Semyonov's voice had appalled me.
Semyonov was quiet, of course, smiling that beastly smile of his. Then at last he said: "Suppose we play for it?" We agreed. The one who turned up the Ace of Hearts was to stay. You could have heard a pin drop after that. I have never before felt what I felt then. If I had to return and leave Semyonov here! They say that the attack may develop in this direction at any moment.
"Well then," said Semyonov, "we'll say that you were very naturally influenced by them. And quite right perfectly right. You were only a girl then you are a woman now. I had nothing to say to you then now I can help you, give you a little advice perhaps " I don't know what Nina replied. She was breathlessly pleased and excited. "What I want," he went on, "is the happiness of you all.
The flame of the soldiers' fire grew faint, white mists rose in the fields, the cannon in the forest ceased and the birds began. I sat up on the cart, looked at my sleeping companions, and thought how unpleasant they looked. Semyonov like a dead man, Andrey Vassilievitch like a happy pig, Trenchard like a child who slept after a scolding. I felt intense loneliness.
I'm late!" And he turned away to the house. Marie Ivanovna herself spoke to me of Semyonov. She found me alone waiting for my morning tea. We were before the others, and could hear, in the next room, Molozov splashing water about the floor and crying to Michail, his servant, to pour "Yestsho! Yestsho!" "Yestsho! Yestsho!" "Still more! Still more," over his head.
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