was not entirely a stranger and a foreigner. l felt an ecstasy in being in my native land once more. So l took up a pen and wrote her that letter. But why to her, l don't quite know. Are you in love with her? No! N-no! l wrote to her as to a sister. Listen! assure me truly as before Heaven, are you lying to me or not? No, l am not lying. Are you telling the truth when you say you are not in love? l believe it is the absolute truth. 'l believe,' indeed! You don't suppose she could take any interest in you, do you? Why, she called you an 'idiot' herself. l think you might have spared me that. Now, l want to hear you swear that you are not married to that woman? Lizabetha Prokofievna, what are you thinking of? Why? You very nearly were, anyhow. Yes. l nearly was. Well, are you in love with her? Well then, have you come here for her? For that creature? l did not come to marry at all. ls there anything you hold sacred? There is. Then swear by it that you did not come here to marry her. l'll swear it by whatever you please. l believe you. You may kiss me; l breathe freely at last. Sit down. Now then, tell me, yes or no? Do you know why she called out from her carriage the other night? l give you my word of honour that l don't know. l had nothing to do with the matter and know nothing about it. Up to yesterday morning l thought it was really Evgenie Pavlovitch who was to blame. Now l cannot help agreeing with the others. Here everyone laughed at him For some reason, for some purpose. Do you know anything about Gavrila Ardalionovitch? Oh yes, l know a good deal. Are you aware, sir, that this Gania or his sister Varia have brought her into correspondence with Nastasia Philipovna? - Brought whom? -Aglaya. lt's impossible! What object could they have? Nor do l believe it, in spite of the proofs. The girl is self-willed and fantastic, and insane! She's wicked, wicked! Did you go to town yesterday? l dare swear you went down on your knees to that rogue Burdovsky, and begged him to accept your ten thousand roubles! He is not a rogue. l have had a letter from him. He thanks me for help to his mother. But tells that he will never accept the money. Show it to me! How extremely stupid! lt was not worth the trouble of reading. Why are you smiling? Confess that you are pleased to have read it. Oh, what a little child you are, Lizabetha Prokofievna! Never come near my house again! Don't let me see as much as a shadow of you about the place! And in three days you'll come and invite me yourself. Aren't you ashamed now? These are your best feelings; you are only tormenting yourself. l'll die before l invite you! l shall forget your very name! But l'm forbidden your house as it is, without your added threats! What? Who forbade you? Yesterday morning Aglaya lvanovna sent me a note. Where is it? Give it here, at once. PRlNCE LEF NlCOLAlEVlTCH, lf you think fit, after all that has passed to honour our house with a visit l can assure you wont find me among the number of those who are in any way delighted. Aglaya Epanchin. Quick come along! Come along with me this moment! -But you expose me to... -To what?! Don't be a simpleton. You behave just as though you weren't a man at all. She was annoyed that you didn't come. But she ought to have known that one can't write like that to an idiot like you, for you'd be sure to take it literally, and that had happened. Come on! Well, let me get my hat, at least. Gentlemen. What is liberalism as not the attack upon the existing order of things? ls this so? That's it, Russian liberalism do not attack Russian custom but Russia itself. My Russian liberal goes so far as to reject Russia; that is, he hates and strikes his own mother. Every misfortune and mishap of the mother-country fills him with mirth, and even with ecstasy. He hates the national customs, Russian history, and ------------------------------ Читайте также: - текст Поздняя весна на английском - текст Слон и Моська на английском - текст Остаться в живых (Затерянные) - Сезон 2 на английском - текст Флаббер на английском - текст Покровские ворота на английском |