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life,' taken hold of him with such irresistible, such suffocating force. Had he been a little younger, he would have cried with misery, weariness, and exasperation: a biting, burning bitterness, like the bitter of wormwood, filled his whole soul. A sort of clinging repugnance, a weight of loathing closed in upon him on all sides like a dark night of autumn; and he did not know how to get free from this darkness, this bitterness. Sleep it was useless to reckon upon; he knew he should not sleep. He fell to thinking ... slowly, listlessly, wrathfully. He thought of the vanity, the uselessness, the vulgar falsity of all things human. All the stages of man's life passed in order before his mental gaze (he had himself lately reached his fifty-second year), and not one found grace in his eyes. Everywhere the same ever-lasting pouring of water into a sieve, the ever-lasting beating of the air, everywhere the same self-deception--half in good faith, half conscious--any toy to amuse the child, so long as it keeps him from crying.
And then, all of a sudden, old age drops down like snow on the head, and with it the ever-growing, ever-gnawing, and devouring dread of death ... and the plunge into the abyss! Lucky indeed if life works out so to the end! May be, before the end, like rust on iron, sufferings, infirmities come.... He did not picture life's sea, as the poets depict it, covered with tempestuous waves; no, he thought of that sea as a smooth, untroubled surface, stagnant and transparent to its darkest depths. He himself sits in a little tottering boat, and down below in those dark oozy depths, like prodigious fishes, he can just make out the shapes of hideous monsters: all the ills of life, diseases, sorrows, madness, poverty, blindness.... He gazes, and behold, one of these monsters separates itself off from the darkness, rises higher and higher, stands out more and more distinct, more and more loathsomely distinct.... An instant yet, and the boat that bears him will be overturned! But behold, it grows dim again, it withdraws, sinks down to the bottom, and there it lies, faintly
Page 1 and 2: The Torrents of Spring Turgenev, Iv
Page 3: THE TORRENTS OF SPRING 'Years of gl
Page 7 and 8: yellow with age, was a little garne
Page 9 and 10: I It was the summer of 1840. Sanin
Page 11 and 12: tall wicker chair near the window a
Page 13 and 14: of fourteen, white all over--white,
Page 15 and 16: 'He ought to be bled--it's an apopl
Page 17 and 18: her knees by the sofa, and, clutchi
Page 19 and 20: movement of the brush he hopped up
Page 21 and 22: 'He is saved, mother, he is alive!'
Page 23 and 24: What could Sanin do? 'I will come,'
Page 25 and 26: decanters of liqueur, biscuits and
Page 27 and 28: igand, after the style of Rinaldo R
Page 29 and 30: obviously, played the invalid and i
Page 31 and 32: asked for a translation of the text
Page 33 and 34: a sort of bass constantly falling i
Page 35 and 36: no ... no ... no ... non temerò!"
Page 37 and 38: ideas!' She went promptly, however,
Page 39 and 40: unanimous laughter, she dropped the
Page 41 and 42: and laughed, while her mother scold
Page 43 and 44: though it could not be otherwise. '
Page 45 and 46: VIII He had not finished dressing,
Page 47 and 48: Sanin, surpassed all belief; each f
Page 49 and 50: IX Emil, who had continued to stand
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efore all things, of possessing '_u
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Gemma cried out in ecstasy (Frau Le
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XI The bell tinkled at the outer do
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grew soft in the sweet languor of i
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XII It appeared that Gemma was not
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Gemma was silent in her turn, and s
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complicated Italian game, and won a
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float before his eyes, piercing in
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foreign tour; the disturbing emotio
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hour later Sanin, Klüber, and Emil
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XV Soden is a little town half an h
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more dazzling--but her soul seemed
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persistently and, as it were, inqui
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unexpected, and decidedly unpleasan
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on his hat pronounced with dignity,
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with indifference; but here is my c
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* * * * * The whole way home Herr K
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end at last. As he helped Gemma out
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of Herr von Sanin, Baron von Dönho
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And he laughed and hummed as she us
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Pantaleone started and raised his e
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know my decision.' 'Very well; I wi
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XVIII An hour later the waiter came
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said, passing from French into Ital
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Sanin, and with a bow he went away
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Pantaleone to keep the affair of th
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'A person did come to me and we had
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... but she quite seriously begged
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matter. 'Nothing,' answered Gemma;
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XX It was bright starlight when he
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level with the window-sill; he coul
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XXI It was quite morning when he fe
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'A quarter to seven; it's a two hou
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The carriage still rolled on and on
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'Emil!' Sanin interrupted--and he p
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XXII The copse in which the duel wa
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eady for any emergency; a satchel w
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little distance, looking like two s
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... due ... tre!_' The first shot w
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'Honour is satisfied, and the duel
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some perturbation of mind, 'but, of
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Escorted by his two companions, he
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companions; but when he was left al
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into a chair and began to cry. 'Wha
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to-day that she would not marry Her
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had plenty of customers; but now al
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Frau Lenore uttered a cry of deligh
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ineffaceably impressed on his memor
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o'clock in the evening--and there w
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Gemma passed her finger to right an
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Gemma suddenly flung back into the
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'What advice will you give me, Mons
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Gemma drew herself up. 'Too? You to
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'Tell me, please, Gemma...' The lat
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XXV Almost running, Sanin returned
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wrote as follows:-- 'DEAR GEMMA,--Y
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'So that no one sees?' he inquired,
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'GEMMA.' Sanin read this note twice
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'Why should I? But I'll get away al
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from there. The weather was lovely;
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mother, and in general about their
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It was late when they got back to F
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XXVII At five o'clock Sanin woke up
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'Gemma,' he articulated, hardly aud
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earth--sacred, absolute truth--it's
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turned towards Sanin, 'don't, pleas
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'All your life? Really?' queried Ge
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felt that that was how he was looki
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duel, Dimitri,'--which he described
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consideration that I dislike Herr K
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new hat and coat, straight as an ar
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XXIX If Gemma had announced that sh
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she pluck up courage to lift her ey
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eside her (Gemma was sitting on the
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XXX The transition from despair to
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Herr Sanin's income? 'Eight thousan
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Cologne upon mixed marriages.) When
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Signora Roselli and her daughter ab
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as if only then she breathed freely
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ound her neck on a thin cord, gave
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his old schoolfellow, whom he had l
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'Do you mean to say, Ippolit Sidoro
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passes belief, really! Besides, I w
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straying from time to time to the d
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Dimitri Pavlovitch, I don't interfe
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'Here in Frankfort.' 'And who is sh
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'Very well, agreed, and thank you.
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look at Sanin, and was reassured. H
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'I have never seen her.' 'And when
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the street to his lodging. He did n
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XXXIII It takes less than an hour i
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Trot now! Look sharp!' Sanin scratc
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'Do you mean to say you understand
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Like some triumphant general Polozo
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when suddenly the door from the nex
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nodded to Sanin, and turning swiftl
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again, escorted by her husband. She
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times in a voice of tearful irritat
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along; and Monsieur Sanin and I wil
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'Certainly. She is a confectioner's
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'Her name is Gemma.' 'And yours?' '
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'Tula.' 'Oh! so we're from the same
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properly?--in your noble sentiments
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eferred to the picturesque situatio
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'And was he the same then?' 'The sa
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Nikolaevna, fresh and rosy as a sum
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like an antique statue, is it likel
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Nikolaevna been a lady of fashion,
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'Better half! Eye-peeps!' Sanin rep
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Nikolaevna snatched it up at once.
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in advance, everything, in fact! (A
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sitting on a narrow bench confronte
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comic ones there are there. There's
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XXXVIII Oh, what a deep sigh of del
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merely the caprice of a spoiled, ri
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a smile, 'The very man ... your com
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'How did you know that?' muttered S
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The dinner was, as on the day befor
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'No ... not now,' answered Maria Ni
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She made him sit down beside her wi
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to the ladies in French, "_Pardon,
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I've no talents of any sort. I scar
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This laugh, too, jarred upon Sanin.
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Maria Nikolaevna shook her head. 'Q
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'Well,' began Maria Nikolaevna, sin
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there, _I_ shall not be _I_! Are yo
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word, one might fancy the governmen
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XL The play lasted over an hour lon
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exclaim, No man knows what may be h
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'With him? that boy? He's one of my
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She began getting out.... What was
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XLI Such were Sanin's thoughts, as
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sinew, biting the air and snorting
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along on one side. 'But I am ready
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surname alone), on, gallop!' When t
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XLII This track soon changed into a
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her, and it seemed as though that s
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'Twenty-two.' 'Really? I'm twenty-t
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own rocks came strong currents of f
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good! I know where we are. We haven
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She hopped like a bird into the sad
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distraught, ruined.... 'Where are y
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had sent to Gemma, that never recei
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Nikolaevna noticed him and poked he
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furnished a capital flat, and havin
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the same garden. What was he to do?
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elle is still alive and has not lef
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Russia nor from anywhere; and that
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married, and her photograph she enc
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FIRST LOVE The party had long ago b
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'My first love, certainly, was not
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married her from mercenary consider
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This presentiment, this expectation
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Schiller's _Robbers_.
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were close round her, and she was s
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'What's the matter?' my father aske
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In my absence my mother had receive
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IV In the narrow and untidy passage
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'I have the honour of addressing th
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son of our neighbour, Mr. V. What i
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The young princess sat down, took o
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Though I was greatly delighted that
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given sweetmeats. I was as happy as
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a jingle of the chain of his sabre.
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ack with the answer.' 'Why, have I
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V The princess called on my mother
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'Nor her father either,' rejoined m
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ook. I saw how she looked after him
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'What nonsense! fine visitors indee
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'Thank God, I haven't!' 'Thank God,
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VII At eight o'clock precisely, in
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hideous degree, curly-headed as a n
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the chair and gave me such a bright
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look at me. But I felt so happy tha
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the young princess would glance at
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only from time to time laughed sile
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But it too, this image, seemed more
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A curious influence my father had o
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oneself--the whole savour of life l
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He stayed there not more than an ho
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IX My 'passion' dated from that day
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shadows of clouds on a sunny day of
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apparent even to me, a boy of sixte
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Yes, Zinaïda amused herself hugely
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Zinaïda continued to play cat and
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whispered, 'I would have gone to th
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Zinaïda hurriedly pressed my hand
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of my nose, and its secrecy probabl
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'Ah, young man, young man,' the doc
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princess had gone out. 'Yes, a fine
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XI On the evening of the same day t
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women wore gold rings on their ankl
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'Forfeits?' put in Lushin. 'No, for
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XII The days passed by. Zinaïda be
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princess, who was, in her words, _u
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to myself again, without opening my
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XIII I was so proud and light-heart
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'What am I afraid of? Why, you don'
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horse for to-morrow.' 'Oh, and wher
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what more would I not do for her?'
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she so pale? out riding the whole m
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came twice a day, but did not stay
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suddenly pulling her fingers apart,
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eally; well, not your aunt, but an
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XVI After dinner the usual party as
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'And if she ran away?' 'I should ca
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seemed to me so much above all of u
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want to go out to him, and to stay
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'M'sieu Voldemar, as the queen's pa
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upon Zinaïda; the old princess sen
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I went up to the fence and leaned a
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XVII The following day I only had a
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You will thank me.' Malevsky laughe
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done?... Naught!' With what a cruel
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ambush, and walked all about the ga
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Behind them--I saw this, saw it dis
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for his holidays; Zinaïda at once
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my wet cheek. But I turned away fro
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to all my passing sensations, and c
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no hiding those things; for all tha
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count bowed, bit his lips, shrank a
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'I heard your voice,' she began, 'a
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shake off the past; I did not quick
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XXI My father used every day to rid
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the horses, and scolding Electric,
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other word for it. She uttered mono
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ten feet away ... but my father soo
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one strives in vain to make out cle
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XXII Four years passed. I had just
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were astir within me.... I determin
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what might I not have done if I had
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MUMU In one of the outlying streets
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life. From his childhood he had bee
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police-station afterwards--every on
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porter, adhered in everything to th
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decided, taking a pinch of snuff co
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dropped her eyelids when sometimes
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positively flopped upon the table.
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husband. But on the other hand, tha
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forgive my saying so, that's what y
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Gavrila Andreitch; and, as far as I
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over with me now; I've knocked abou
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'What are your orders, Gavrila Andr
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unruly, certainly.' Tatiana turned,
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difficulty, of course; but Kapiton
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going into the room where the counc
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slap from above. When everything wa
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asleep himself at last, and slept q
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fact, she was an excellent watch-do
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'Mercy on us!' she cried suddenly;
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to Stepan. Stepan carried her into
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(Mumu had never bitten any one in h
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wish to know. We have a yard dog, h
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staggered into the house with his l
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postillion Antipka reported next mo
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hole in the door he stopped up effe
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'Again, that dog again!... Oh, send
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as not to be angry and to overlook
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sticks. They began to mount the sta
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flung open; all the crowd flew pell
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'What does that mean?' Gavrila bega
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Gerasim was well known at the cooks
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peasants' huts began to make their
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'How? when?' 'Why, a couple of hour
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from that quarter. Quails were in h
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eing there. The old lady was somewh
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