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白痴|The Idiot

Part 4 第6章|Part 4 Chapter 5

属类： 双语小说 【分类】世界名著 -[作者: 陀思妥耶夫斯基] 阅读：[21660]
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关于叶潘钦家别墅里要举行晚会，等候别洛孔斯卡娅光临，瓦尔瓦拉·阿尔达利翁诺夫娜完全确切地告诉了哥哥；正是在这天晚上要等候客人；但是对这件事她表达得又比应该的那样急躁了些。确实，事情安排得过于仓促，甚至还带有几分完全不必要的激动不安，这正是因为在这个家庭里“一切都不像人家那样做法。”这一切可以用以下两点来解释：“不愿再怀疑的”叶莉扎维塔·普罗科菲耶夫娜急不可耐了；父母的两颗心都在为爱女的幸福热烈而跳动。加上别洛孔斯卡娅真的很快就要离开；因为她的庇护确实在上流社会举足轻重，因为他们指望她将会赏识公爵，因而也寄希望于“上流社会”能直接从神通广大的“老太婆”那里接纳阿格拉娅的未婚夫，因此，如果在这件事上有什么奇怪的地方，在这样的庇护下也就会觉得不那么奇怪了。全部问题在于，父母自己怎么也不能决断：“整个这一件享有没有奇怪的地方？又究竟奇怪到什么程度？还是根本就没有什么奇怪的？”在目前这个关头，由于阿格拉娅的缘故，还什么都不能做出最后决定，有权威、有资格的人士友好和坦率的意见就很适用，无论怎么样，或迟或早，总该把公爵引入他对之没有丝毫概念的上流社会。简言之，他们打算让他“亮相”。不过晚会安排得很简单；等候在这里的仅仅是“家庭的朋友”，最少数的一些人。除了别洛孔斯卡娅，大家还等候一位夫人，是一位相当显要的达官贵人的妻子。年轻人中几乎就叶甫盖尼·帕夫洛维奇一个人，他要陪同别洛孔斯卡娅到来。

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别洛孔斯卡娅要来的事，公爵还是在晚会前三天就已听说了；但只是上一天才知道要举行晚会。当然，他发觉了这一家成员忙忙碌碌的样子，根据某些暗示和跟他谈话时忧心忡忡的神情，他甚至领悟到，他们怕他会给人留下什么印象。但是，叶潘钦家似乎每一个人都有这么一种概念，认为他缺少心眼，他自己是怎么也猜不到他们在为他非常担心。因此，大家望着他，内心里甚为苦恼。不过，他也确实几乎没有把面临的这件事看得那么重要；他牵记的完全是另一回事：阿格拉娅一小时比一小时变得越来越任性，越来越忧郁，这使他很伤心。当他知道大家也在等叶甫盖厄·帕夫洛维奇时，他非常高兴并说，他早就希望见到他。不知为什么谁也不喜欢听这儿句话；阿格拉娅烦恼地走出了房间，只是很晚的时候，１１点多了，公爵已经准备离去时，她才利用送他的机会单独对他说了几句话：

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“我希望，明天白天您不要到我们这儿来，晚上等这些……客人已经聚拢了再来，您知道要有客人吗？”

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她说得很不耐烦，而且特别严峻；她是第一次说起这个“晚会”。对她来说一想到客人几乎也是不可忍受的；大家都发现了这一点。也许，她极想为此与父母吵一场，但是骄矜和窖羞使她没有开口。公爵马上就明白，她也在为他担忧（但又不愿承认她在担忧），于是他自己也忽然害怕起来。

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“是的，我受到了邀请，”他回答说。

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显然她难以再说下去。

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“可不可以跟您谈点正经的？哪怕一生中就一次？”她突然异常生气地说，自己也不知道为什么，也无力克制自己。

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“可以呀，我洗耳恭听；我很高兴，”公爵喃喃说。

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阿格拉娅又沉默了分把钟，然后带着明显的反感开始说：

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“我不想跟他们争论这件事，有的事情上你简直无法使他们明白过来。所有的规矩总使我厌恶，可妈妈有时常要有这些规矩。爸爸就不提了，他什么都不管。妈妈，当然，是个高尚的女人；您要是胆敢建议她做什么卑鄙的事，那就瞧着吧。咳，可是却对这个……坏女人推崇备至！我不光是说别洛孔斯卡娅一个人，这是个坏老太婆，脾气也坏，可是却很聪明，善于把他们所有的人掌握在自己手里，就是这点有本事；哦，真卑鄙！也很可笑：我们始终是中等阶层的人，也只能是最平常的人；何必硬要钻进上流社会的圈子里去呢？姐姐们也往那里钻；这是ω公爵搅乱了大家的心，叶甫盖尼·帕夫雷奇要来，您为什么高兴？”

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“听着，阿格拉娅，”公爵说，“我觉得您非常为我担心，怕我明天在这个社交界……出洋相？”

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“为您？担心？”阿格拉娅满脸通红，火冒三丈，“您哪怕……您哪怕完全名誉扫地，凭什么我要为您担心？那关我什么事？您怎么能用这样的字眼？‘出洋相’是什么意思？这是个下流的字眼，庸俗的字眼。”

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“这是……学生用语。”

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“是呀，学生用语！下流的字眼！您好像打算明天就说这样的字眼。在家里在您的词汇里再多找些这样的字眼：一定会产生效果！遗憾的是，您好像会好好地走进屋子里来，您在哪里学会的？当大家都故意望着您的时候，您会体面地拿起茶杯喝茶吗？”

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“我想我会的。”

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“这很遗憾；不然我可以笑一笑。至少您要打碎客厅里的一个中国花瓶！它很贵，请打碎它；它是人家送的，妈妈会气得发疯，会当着大家的面哭起来，因为这花瓶对她来说太宝贵了；您做个什么动作，就像您经常做的那样，碰到花瓶，把它打碎。要故意坐得靠近花瓶的地方。”

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“相反，我耍尽可能竭力坐得远一些。谢谢您的警告。”

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“这么说，您事先就在担心会做大幅度的动作。我敢打赌，您会谈什么‘题目’，谈什么严肃的、有学问的、高尚的内容，是吗？这该会是多么……体面呀！”

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“我想这会是愚蠢的……假若不合时宜的话。”

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“听着，就讲这一回，”阿格拉娅终于不耐烦了，“如果您要谈什么死刑，或者俄罗斯的经济状况，或者‘拯救世界’之类内容，那么……我当然会高兴一阵、大笑一阵，但是……我事先警告您：以后您再也别在我面前出现！听见了吗，我是当真说的！这一次我可是当真说的！”

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她确实是当真说出这番威吓的话的，因而甚至在她的话声中可以听到、在她的目光中可以看到某种不同寻常的东西，这是公爵过去从未发现过的，当然，这就不像是开玩笑了。

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“咳，您话说得这样，我现在一定会‘说漏嘴”，甚至……可能……打碎花瓶。刚才我什么都不担心、现在却什么都担心。我一定会出洋相的。”

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“那就别作声。坐着，不要说话。”

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“那不成；我肯走会因害怕说漏了嘴，会因害怕打碎花瓶。也可能，我会跌倒在光滑的地板上，或者弄出这一类事来，因为过去就发生过；今天一整夜我将会做这样的梦；您为什么要说起这些！”

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阿格拉娅阴郁地望了他一眼。

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“知道吗，明天我最好还是干脆不来！我就报告说病了，不就完了！”最后他这样决定。

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阿格拉娅跺了下脚，甚至气得脸色发白。

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“天哪！什么地方见过这样的事啊！人家故意为他……他却不来！哦，天哪！跟您这样头脑不清的人打交道可真有幸！”

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“好，我来，我来。”公爵尽快打断她说，“我向您保证，整个晚上我将坐在那里一语不发。我就这样做。”

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“您这样做好极了。您刚才说：‘我就报告说病了；’这种说法您到底是从哪儿捡来的？您干吗老爱用这些词语来跟我说话？您是存心逗我还是怎么的？”

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“对不想，这也是学生用语；以后我不说了。我很明白，您……是在为我担心……（但是别生气！），对此我非常高兴，您不会相信，我现在有多担心，您的话又使我有多高兴。但是，我向您发誓，所有这种害怕，所有这一切全部不值一提和荒诞无稽。真的，阿格拉娅！但是高兴会留下来。我非常非常喜欢，您是这么一个孩子，这么好、这么善良的孩子！啊，您能成为多么美好的人，阿格拉娅！”

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阿格拉娅当然是会生气的，而且已经想要生气了，但是忽然有一种连她自己也感到意外的感觉霎那间袭住了她的整个心灵。

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“您不会责备我刚才说的那些粗鲁话……某个时候……以后？”突然她问。

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“您说什么呀，您说什么呀？而且您干吗又发人了？瞧您又阴沉地看起人来了！您有时候看起人来太阴沉了，阿格拉娅，您过去从不这样看人，我知道，这是因为……”

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“闭嘴，闭嘴！”

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“不，最好还是说出来。我早就想说了；我已经说了，但是……这还不够，因为您不相信我。在我们之间始终隔着一个人……”

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“闭嘴，闭嘴，闭嘴，闭嘴！”阿格拉娅突然打断他，一边紧紧抓住他的手，几乎是惊恐地望着他。这时有人在喊她；她仿佛很高兴，丢下他就跑去了。

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公爵整夜都发热。很奇怪，他已经连续几夜发热病了。这一次在半昏迷状态中他冒出一个念头；要是明天当众毛病发作怎么办！过去不是确实发作过吗？想到这里他浑身冰凉；整夜他都想象着自己处于奇异怪诞、闻所未闻的社交界中，在一群奇怪的人群之中。主要是他“说走了嘴”；他知道什么不该说，但是却说个不停，他竭力劝说他们什么。叶甫盖尼·帕夫洛维奇和伊波利特也在客人们中间。而且显得异常友好。

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他醒来时快９点了，头脑胀痛，思绪纷乱，印象奇特。不知为什么他十分想见到罗戈任，想见他并要跟他谈许多话，——究竟谈什么，他自己也不知道；后来他已经完全决定为什么事到伊波利特那儿去。他心里有一种模糊浑沌的感觉，以致虽然这天上午他遭遇的一些事给他留下了异常强烈的印象，但是仍然有某种不完整的感受。这些事中的一件便是列别杰夫的来访。

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列别杰夫来得相当早，九点刚过，而且几乎完全醉了。虽然近来公爵没有注意观察，但是有一个情况不知怎么地却令他注目：自从伊沃尔金将军从他们这儿搬走后，已经三天了，列别杰夫的行为举止很怪。他不知怎么地突然变得异常肮脏邋遢，领带歪到一旁，常礼服的衣领也撕碎了。他在自己那里甚至还发酒疯，隔一个小院子就可以听到的；维拉有一次哭着跑来诉说原委。现在他来到公爵这里，不知怎么非常奇怪地说了起来，一一还捶着自己胸口，一边认着什么错……

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“因为背叛和卑鄙，我得到了……得到了报应……我挨了耳光！”最后他悲切地说。

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“耳光！谁打的！……这么一大清早。”

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“一大清早。”列别杰夫现出讥讽的微笑，说，“时间在这里没有任何意义……即使是肉体上受到报应……但我得到的是精神上的……精神上的耳光，而不是肉体上的！”

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他突然不经客套就坐了下来并开始讲起来。他的叙述毫不连贯；公爵皱了下眉头，想要离开，但忽然有几句话使他吃了一惊。他甚至惊讶得呆若木鸡……列别杰夫先生讲的事情十分令人奇怪。

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开始看来是讲一封信；提到了阿格拉娅·伊万诺夫娜的名字。后来列别杰夫突然开始痛心地抱怨公爵本人；可以理解，公爵使他受了委屈。他说，起先在跟著名“人物”（即纳斯塔西娅·费利帕夫娜）打交道这件事上，他有幸得到公爵的信任；但是后来公爵就完全跟他断绝了关系，并且把他从自己身边赶走，使他蒙受羞辱，甚至让人委屈到这种程度，最后一次竟粗暴地仿佛是断然拒绝回答“家里即将发生的变化’，这一并无恶意的问题。列别杰夫流着醉汉的眼泪承认说，“此后我尽经无论如何也不能忍受了，尤其是因为我知道得很多……非常多，从罗戈任那里，从纳斯塔西娅·费利帕夫娜那里；从纳斯塔西娅·费利帕夫娜的女友那里，从瓦尔瓦拉·阿尔达利翁诺夫娜……本人那里……还有从……甚至从阿格拉娅·伊万诺夫娜本人那里，您能想象这点吗，经过维拉的媒介，即经过我心爱的女儿维拉，唯一的……是的……不过她不是唯一的女儿，因为我有三个女儿。谁多次给叶莉扎维塔·普罗科菲耶夫娜写信，甚至还以极端秘密的方式，嘻－嘻！谁写信告诉她纳斯塔西娅·费利帕夫娜个人的全部关系……和行动，嘻－嘻－嘻！请问，是谁，谁是匿名信作者！”

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“难道是您？”公爵大声喊道。

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“正是，”醉汉神气活现地答道，“就在今天８点半时，总共才半小时前……不，已经有三刻钟了，我通知这位高尚的母亲，我有一件事……重要的事要转告她。我写了一张便条，通过一位姑娘从后面台阶上递进去的，她收下了。”

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“您刚才见过时莉扎维塔·普罗科菲耶夫娜了。”公爵问，他几乎不相信自己的耳朵。

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“刚才见过并挨了记耳光……精神的耳光。她把信退还给我，甚至是扔还给我的，没有启封……把我不客气地撵了出来……不过，只是精神上的，而不是肉体上的……不过，差不多也就是肉体上的了，稍微差一点！”

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“什么信她没有拆就扔还给您了。”

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“难道……嘻一嘻一嘻！是啊，我还没有告诉您！我以为已经说过了……我收到这么一封信是要转交的……”

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“谁写的？写给谁？”

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但是列别杰夫的某些“解释”很难弄懂，哪怕能明白什么也不容易。但是公爵多少还能领会到，信是清晨通过女仆转交给维拉·列别杰娃的，由她再按地址转交…… “就像过去一样……就像过去一样，是那一位写给某个人……（我用“那一位”来称其中一位，仅用“某人”来称另一个，以表鄙视和区别；因为在纯洁无暇和高贵的将军的小姐与……茶花女之间是有很大差别的），就这样，信是由名字第一个字母是Ａ的‘那一位少写的。”

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“这怎么可能？写给纳斯塔西娅·费利帕去娜，荒谬！”公爵嚷道。

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“以前也有过，有过，但这次不是给她，而是给罗戈任，反正一样，是给罗戈任……甚至也曾给捷连季耶夫先生写过信，是转交的，但是是以Ａ开头的那一位写的，”列别杰夫眨了下眼，莞尔一笑说。

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因为他常常偏离话题从一件事跳到另一件事并且忘记开始说的是什么，因此公爵便保持静默，让他说下去。但依然异常不清楚：信是经过他还是经过维拉转交？既然他自己要人相信“给罗戈任跟给纳斯塔西娅·费利帕夫娜一个样”，那就是说，多半不是经过他转交的，如果是有书信的话。而现在信是通过什么方式落到了他的手里，这一情况仍然完全没有解释清楚；最可能应当设想是他用了什么办法从维拉那儿偷走了信……悄悄地偷了，怀着某种用意去给叶莉扎维塔·普罗科菲耶夫娜。这样设想，公爵终于明白了。

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“您发疯了！”他极为慌乱地嚷了起来。

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“不完全是这样，深深敬爱的公爵，”列别杰夫不无恶意地回答说，“真的，本来我想交给您，给您，交到您本人手中，为您效劳……但是考虑结果觉得还是为那边效劳好，把一切都告知最高尚的母亲……因为以前有一次我曾写信告诉过她，是匿名信；刚才我预先在小纸片上写了，请求在８点２０分时接见，落款也是‘您的秘密通信者’！立即就准许了，马上，甚至还特别急促，让我从后门进去，见最高尚的母亲。”

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“后来呢？……”

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‘在那里的情况您已经知道了，差点没揍我一顿；也就是说只差一点点；甚至可以认为差不多是揍了。她把信扔还了我。的确，她想把信留在自己那儿，我看得出，我注意到这一点，但是改变了主意，扔还给了我，说：‘既然人家信托你这样的人转交，那你就去转交吧……’她甚至生气了。既然在我面前说并不觉得不好意思，那就是说，她是生气了。她是个火爆性子的人！”

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“现在信在什么地方？”

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“一直在我这里，瞧。”

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他把阿格拉娅给加夫里拉·阿尔达利翁诺维奇的便信递给了公爵，这正是当天上午两小时以后加夫里拉洋洋得意地给妹妹看的那封信。

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“这封信不能留您这儿。”

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“给您，给您！就是带来给您的，”列别杰夫热烈地接口说，“在有过瞬息的背叛以后，现在我又是您的奴仆了，整个儿都是您的人，从头到脚，从外面到内心！您就痛斥心灵，宽恕这一把胡子吧，就像托马斯·莫尔……在英国和大不列问说过的那样。而照罗马教王说的，则是Ｍｅａ ｃｕ１ｐａ， ｍｃａ ｃｕｌｐａ＊……也就是说他是罗马教皇，而我把他叫做罗马教王。”

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“这封信应该马上送去，”公爵操起心来，“我来转交。”

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“最好是不是……最好是不是……最有教养的公爵，最好是不是……这样！”

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列别杰夫做了个怪诞的谄媚的鬼脸；他忽然在原地手忙脚乱起来，仿佛突然被针刺了似的，一边狡黠地霎着眼睛，一边用手做着动作表示着什么。

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“怎么回事？”公爵威严地间。

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“最好是先拆开来。”他似乎是推心置腹、巴结而动人地低语着。

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公爵顿时暴跳如雷，列别杰夫本已开始逃开，但跑到门口又停了下来，想等等是否会有宽恕。

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“哎，列别杰夫！怎么能，怎么能坠落到您这样低贱无耻的地步？”公爵痛心地大声说。列别杰夫的脸容变得开朗了。

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“低贱，低贱！”他马上走近来，一边捶着胸口，一边淌着眼泪。

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“这可是卑鄙！”

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“的确卑鄙！是实在话！”

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“您这是什么习性……喜欢这样奇怪地行事？您……可简直是间谍！为什么您要写匿名信去惊扰……这么高尚、善良的妇女？再说，为什么阿格拉娅·伊万诺夫娜没有权利爱给准写信就写信呢？您今天是去告发，还是怎么的？您指望得到什么？是什么促使您去告密？”

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“纯粹是出于令人愉快的好奇心以及……为高尚的人热心效劳，就这样！”列别杰夫喃喃说，“现在整个几都是您的，又全是您的人了！哪怕把我绞死也是！”

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“您到叶莉扎维塔·普罗科菲耶夫娜那里去，也像现在这副样子？”公爵厌恶而又不无好奇地问。

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“不……要干净些……甚至体面些；我已经是在受辱以后才弄得……这副模样。”

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“嗯，好吧，让我安静一会。”

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“不过，这一请求必须得重复好几次，直至客人终于下决心离去。”他已经完全打开了门，重又回过来，随着脚走到房间中央，又开始用双手做手势表示拆信；他已经不敢用话说出自己的建议来；后来他走出去了，露出安详温和的微笑。

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听到这一切心情是异常沉重的。所有这些事中显露出一个主要的不同一般的事实：阿格拉娅处于极大的不安、极大的犹豫、极大的痛苦之中，而且不知道为什么“是出于嫉妒，”公爵暗自低语。当然，也是源于有些居心不良的人搅扰了她，而非常奇怪的是，她竟这么信任他们。当然，在这个没有经验的、但急躁而高傲的头脑中酝酿着某些特殊的计划，也许是极有窖的……极不像话的。公爵异常惶恐，困惑中甚至不知道该拿什么主意。一定得采取什么预防措施，这点他是感觉到的。他又一次瞥了一眼封了口的信上的地址：哦，这里他没有什么怀疑和不安的，因为他相信阿格拉娅；这封信的另一方面使他忐忑不安：他不相信加夫里拉·阿尔达利翁诺维奇，但是，他还是决定亲自把这封信转交给他本人，为此他已经走出了家门，但是在路上他又改变了主意。几乎就在普季岑家门口，就像故意安排似的，碰上了科利亚，于是公爵就委托他把信交到兄长手里，仿佛就是从阿格拉娅·伊万诺夫娜那里直接转交的。科利亚没有多问就送去了，因而加尼亚根本就想不到，信已经经过了多少中转。回家以后，公爵请维拉·鲁基扬诺夫娜到自己这儿来，对她说了该告诉她的情况，并安慰她，因为她到现在一直在找这封信，急得直哭。当她获悉信被他父亲拿走，惊恐异常（公爵后来从她那儿知道，她不止一次秘密为罗戈任和阿格拉娅·伊万诺夫娜效劳；她怎么也想不到，这里会有什么对公爵可能不利……）

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公爵的心境终于坏到了极点，两小时后，当科利亚差人到他这儿来通知其父病倒时，最初一刻他几乎不能明白是怎么回事。但正是这一事件使他恢复了常态，因为它强烈地转移了他的注意力。他在尼娜·亚历山德罗夫娜那里（病人自然被送到她这里）差不多一直耽到晚上。他几乎帮不上什么忙，但有这么一种人，患难者在艰难的时刻只要见到他们在自己身边，便不知怎么地会感到宽慰。科利亚惊吓得不得了，歇斯底里地哭泣着，但是他一直在当跑腿：跑去找医生，找了三位，又跑药房，还去了理发铺。＊总算使将军死而复苏，但是没有恢复知觉；医生表示，“无论怎样，病人处于危险之中”。瓦里娅和尼娜·亚历山德罗夫娜寸步不离病人，加尼亚感到窘困和震惊，但不想到楼上去，甚至怕见病人，他绞着自己的双手，在与公爵语无伦次的谈话中他能表达的就是，“这样的不幸，仿佛故意似的，偏偏在这个时候！”公爵觉得，他能明白加尼亚所指的是什么时候，在普季岑家里公爵已经遇不到伊波利特了。到傍晚时列别杰夫跑来了，在上午的“解释”以后他一直睡到现在没有醒过。现在他差不多是清醒的，在病人面前哭洒了真诚的眼泪，犹如哭自己的亲兄弟似的。他哭诉着，自责着，但是并没有解释是怎么一回事，他还一再缠着尼娜·亚历山德罗夫问，不停地要她相信，“是他，他本人就是原因，不是别人而正是他……纯粹出于令人快活的好奇心……” 死者“（不知为什么他这么固执地称还活着的将军）甚至是最具天才的人！”他特别认真地坚持将军是天才这一点，仿佛因此能在此刻带来什么不同一般的好处似的，尼娜·亚历山德罗夫娜看见他的真诚泪水，终于不带任何责备，甚至几乎是温柔地对他说，“好了，上帝保佑您，好了，别哭了，好了，上帝会原谅您的！’；列别杰失彼这些话和说话的语气震惊得整个晚上已经不想离开尼娜·亚历山德罗夫娜的身边（所有后来几天直至将军死去，他几乎从早到夜都在他们家里度过的）。在这一天内叶莉扎维塔·普罗科菲耶夫娜两位差人到尼娜·亚历山德罗夫娜这儿来探询病人的健康状况，晚上９点公爵来到叶潘钦家已经宾客满座的客厅，叶莉扎维塔·普罗科菲耶夫娜又立即开始向他询问病人的情况，既关切又详尽，她也郑重其事地回答了别洛孔斯卡娅的问题：）病人是谁？尼娜·亚历山德罗夫娜是谁？”公爵对此颇为满意。他自己在向叶莉扎维塔·普罗科菲耶夫娜做解释时，谈吐“非常优雅”，照阿格拉娅两位姐姐事后形容的那样：“谦逊，平和，没有多余的话，没有手势，庄重得体：进来时风度翩翩；衣着非常漂亮”，不仅没有像上一天担心的那样“在光滑的地板上摔到”，而且显然给大家留下了甚至愉快的印象。

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从公爵方面来说，他坐下来并打量了周围，马上就发现，所有聚集在这里的人绝非如昨天阿格拉娅用来吓唬他的虚构的样子，也不是夜间他做恶梦见到的可怕的样子。一生中他第一次见到的被冠以可怕的名称“上流社会”的一角。由于某些特别的打算，设想和爱好，他早已渴望着深入到这个颇具迷惑力的人圈里，用此他对第一个印象有苦强烈兴趣。这初步印象甚至是迷人的。不知怎么地，他突然觉得，所有这些人仿佛生下来就是这样呆在一起的，仿佛叶潘钦家今晚没有举办什么“晚会”，没有邀请什么宾客，所有这些人全是“自己人”，而他自己也早已是他们的忠诚朋友和志同道合者，现在是小别之后又回到他们这儿来，优雅的举止、纯朴的为人和表面的坦诚几乎具有迷人的魅力。他怎么也想不到，所有这一切纯朴、高雅、机智和高度的自尊，也许都只是富丽堂皇的艺术精品，大部分宾客，尽管有着令人肃然起敬的外表，却是些相当空虚贫乏的人物，不过，他们在自鸣得意之中自己也不知道，他们身上的许多优点只是糟巧的装饰品，而且这也不是他们的过错，因为他们是不自觉地继承遗产得到它们的。公爵因为沉缅于自己得到的美妙的第一印象之中，因此甚至不想去怀疑这一点。倒如，他看到，这个老人，这个达官显要，论年龄可以做他的爷爷，甚至中断自己的谈话来听他这么一个涉世不深的年轻人说话，不仅听他说，而且显然还看重他的意见，对他这么和蔼可亲、这么真诚温厚，而他们素昧平生，才初次相见。也许，这种礼貌的细致周到对热情敏感的公爵最有影响。也许，他事先就对这种美好的印象过于好感，甚至偏爱。

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＊从前理发铺兼用放血等土法治病。

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IN point of fact, Varia had rather exaggerated the certainty of her news as to the prince’s betrothal to Aglaya. Very likely, with the perspicacity of her sex, she gave out as an accomplished fact what she felt was pretty sure to become a fact in a few days. Perhaps she could not resist the satisfaction of pouring one last drop of bitterness into her brother Gania’s cup, in spite of her love for him. At all events, she had been unable to obtain any definite news from the Epanchin girls--the most she could get out of them being hints and surmises, and so on. Perhaps Aglaya’s sisters had merely been pumping Varia for news while pretending to impart information; or perhaps, again, they had been unable to resist the feminine gratification of teasing a friend--for, after all this time, they could scarcely have helped divining the aim of her frequent visits.

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On the other hand, the prince, although he had told Lebedeff,--as we know, that nothing had happened, and that he had nothing to impart,--the prince may have been in error. Something strange seemed to have happened, without anything definite having actually happened. Varia had guessed that with her true feminine instinct.

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How or why it came about that everyone at the Epanchins’ became imbued with one conviction--that something very important had happened to Aglaya, and that her fate was in process of settlement--it would be very difficult to explain. But no sooner had this idea taken root, than all at once declared that they had seen and observed it long ago; that they had remarked it at the time of the "poor knight" joke, and even before, though they had been unwilling to believe in such nonsense.

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So said the sisters. Of course, Lizabetha Prokofievna had foreseen it long before the rest; her "heart had been sore" for a long while, she declared, and it was now so sore that she appeared to be quite overwhelmed, and the very thought of the prince became distasteful to her.

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There was a question to be decided--most important, but most difficult; so much so, that Mrs. Epanchin did not even see how to put it into words. Would the prince do or not? Was all this good or bad? If good (which might be the case, of course), WHY good? If bad (which was hardly doubtful), WHEREIN, especially, bad? Even the general, the paterfamilias, though astonished at first, suddenly declared that, "upon his honour, he really believed he had fancied something of the kind, after all. At first, it seemed a new idea, and then, somehow, it looked as familiar as possible." His wife frowned him down there. This was in the morning; but in the evening, alone with his wife, he had given tongue again.

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"Well, really, you know"--(silence)--"of course, you know all this is very strange, if true, which I cannot deny; but"-- (silence).--" But, on the other hand, if one looks things in the face, you know--upon my honour, the prince is a rare good fellow-- and--and--and--well, his name, you know--your family name--all this looks well, and perpetuates the name and title and all that-- which at this moment is not standing so high as it might--from one point of view--don’t you know? The world, the world is the world, of course--and people will talk--and--and--the prince has property, you know--if it is not very large--and then he--he--" (Continued silence, and collapse of the general.)

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Hearing these words from her husband, Lizabetha Prokofievna was driven beside herself.

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According to her opinion, the whole thing had been one huge, fantastical, absurd, unpardonable mistake. "First of all, this prince is an idiot, and, secondly, he is a fool--knows nothing of the world, and has no place in it. Whom can he be shown to? Where can you take him to? What will old Bielokonski say? We never thought of such a husband as THAT for our Aglaya!"

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Of course, the last argument was the chief one. The maternal heart trembled with indignation to think of such an absurdity, although in that heart there rose another voice, which said: "And WHY is not the prince such a husband as you would have desired for Aglaya?" It was this voice which annoyed Lizabetha Prokofievna more than anything else.

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For some reason or other, the sisters liked the idea of the prince. They did not even consider it very strange; in a word, they might be expected at any moment to range themselves strongly on his side. But both of them decided to say nothing either way. It had always been noticed in the family that the stronger Mrs. Epanchin’s opposition was to any project, the nearer she was, in reality, to giving in.

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Alexandra, however, found it difficult to keep absolute silence on the subject. Long since holding, as she did, the post of "confidential adviser to mamma," she was now perpetually called in council, and asked her opinion, and especially her assistance, in order to recollect "how on earth all this happened?" Why did no one see it? Why did no one say anything about it? What did all that wretched "poor knight" joke mean? Why was she, Lizabetha Prokofievna, driven to think, and foresee, and worry for everybody, while they all sucked their thumbs, and counted the crows in the garden, and did nothing? At first, Alexandra had been very careful, and had merely replied that perhaps her father’s remark was not so far out: that, in the eyes of the world, probably the choice of the prince as a husband for one of the Epanchin girls would be considered a very wise one. Warming up, however, she added that the prince was by no means a fool, and never had been; and that as to "place in the world," no one knew what the position of a respectable person in Russia would imply in a few years--whether it would depend on successes in the government service, on the old system, or what.

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To all this her mother replied that Alexandra was a freethinker, and that all this was due to that "cursed woman’s rights question."

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Half an hour after this conversation, she went off to town, and thence to the Kammenny Ostrof, ["Stone Island," a suburb and park of St. Petersburg] to see Princess Bielokonski, who had just arrived from Moscow on a short visit. The princess was Aglaya’s godmother.

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"Old Bielokonski"listened to all the fevered and despairing lamentations of Lizabetha Prokofievna without the least emotion; the tears of this sorrowful mother did not evoke answering sighs-- in fact, she laughed at her. She was a dreadful old despot, this princess; she could not allow equality in anything, not even in friendship of the oldest standing, and she insisted on treating Mrs. Epanchin as her protegee, as she had been thirty-five years ago. She could never put up with the independence and energy of Lizabetha’s character. She observed that, as usual, the whole family had gone much too far ahead, and had converted a fly into an elephant; that, so far as she had heard their story, she was persuaded that nothing of any seriousness had occurred; that it would surely be better to wait until something DID happen; that the prince, in her opinion, was a very decent young fellow, though perhaps a little eccentric, through illness, and not quite as weighty in the world as one could wish. The worst feature was, she said, Nastasia Philipovna.

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Lizabetha Prokofievna well understood that the old lady was angry at the failure of Evgenie Pavlovitch--her own recommendation. She returned home to Pavlofsk in a worse humour than when she left, and of course everybody in the house suffered. She pitched into everyone, because, she declared, they had ’gone mad.’ Why were things always mismanaged in her house? Why had everybody been in such a frantic hurry in this matter? So far as she could see, nothing whatever had happened. Surely they had better wait and see what was to happen, instead of making mountains out of molehills.

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And so the conclusion of the matter was that it would be far better to take it quietly, and wait coolly to see what would turn up. But, alas! peace did not reign for more than ten minutes. The first blow dealt to its power was in certain news communicated to Lizabetha Prokofievna as to events which bad happened during her trip to see the princess. (This trip had taken place the day after that on which the prince had turned up at the Epanchins at nearly one o’clock at night, thinking it was nine.)

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The sisters replied candidly and fully enough to their mother’s impatient questions on her return. They said, in the first place, that nothing particular had happened since her departure; that the prince had been, and that Aglaya had kept him waiting a long while before she appeared--half an hour, at least; that she had then come in, and immediately asked the prince to have a game of chess; that the prince did not know the game, and Aglaya had beaten him easily; that she had been in a wonderfully merry mood, and had laughed at the prince, and chaffed him so unmercifully that one was quite sorry to see his wretched expression.

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She had then asked him to play cards--the game called "little fools." At this game the tables were turned completely, for the prince had shown himself a master at it. Aglaya had cheated and changed cards, and stolen others, in the most bare-faced way, but, in spite of everything the prince had beaten her hopelessly five times running, and she had been left "little fool" each time.

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Aglaya then lost her temper, and began to say such awful things to the prince that he laughed no more, but grew dreadfully pale, especially when she said that she should not remain in the house with him, and that he ought to be ashamed of coming to their house at all, especially at night, "AFTER ALL THAT HAD HAPPENED."

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So saying, she had left the room, banging the door after her, and the prince went off, looking as though he were on his way to a funeral, in spite of all their attempts at consolation.

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Suddenly, a quarter of an hour after the prince’s departure, Aglaya had rushed out of her room in such a hurry that she had not even wiped her eyes, which were full of tears. She came back because Colia had brought a hedgehog. Everybody came in to see the hedgehog. In answer to their questions Colia explained that the hedgehog was not his, and that he had left another boy, Kostia Lebedeff, waiting for him outside. Kostia was too shy to come in, because he was carrying a hatchet; they had bought the hedgehog and the hatchet from a peasant whom they had met on the road. He had offered to sell them the hedgehog, and they had paid fifty copecks for it; and the hatchet had so taken their fancy that they had made up their minds to buy it of their own accord. On hearing this, Aglaya urged Colia to sell her the hedgehog; she even called him "dear Colia," in trying to coax him. He refused for a long time, but at last he could hold out no more, and went to fetch Kostia Lebedeff. The latter appeared, carrying his hatchet, and covered with confusion. Then it came out that the hedgehog was not theirs, but the property of a schoolmate, one Petroff, who had given them some money to buy Schlosser’s History for him, from another schoolfellow who at that moment was driven to raising money by the sale of his books. Colia and Kostia were about to make this purchase for their friend when chance brought the hedgehog to their notice, and they had succumbed to the temptation of buying it. They were now taking Petroff the hedgehog and hatchet which they had bought with his money, instead of Schiosser’s History. But Aglaya so entreated them that at last they consented to sell her the hedgehog. As soon as she had got possession of it, she put it in a wicker basket with Colia’s help, and covered it with a napkin. Then she said to Colia: "Go and take this hedgehog to the prince from me, and ask him to accept it as a token of my profound respect." Colia joyfully promised to do the errand, but he demanded explanations. "What does the hedgehog mean? What is the meaning of such a present?" Aglaya replied that it was none of his business. " I am sure that there is some allegory about it," Colia persisted. Aglaya grew angry, and called him "a silly boy." "If I did not respect all women in your person," replied Colia, "and if my own principles would permit it, I would soon prove to you, that I know how to answer such an insult!" But, in the end, Colia went off with the hedgehog in great delight, followed by Kostia Lebedeff. Aglaya’s annoyance was soon over, and seeing that Colia was swinging the hedgehog’s basket violently to and fro, she called out to him from the verandah, as if they had never quarrelled: "Colia, dear, please take care not to drop him!" Colia appeared to have no grudge against her, either, for he stopped, and answered most cordially: "No, I will not drop him! Don’t be afraid, Aglaya Ivanovna!" After which he went on his way. Aglaya burst out laughing and ran up to her room, highly delighted. Her good spirits lasted the whole day.

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All this filled poor Lizabetha’s mind with chaotic confusion. What on earth did it all mean? The most disturbing feature was the hedgehog. What was the symbolic signification of a hedgehog? What did they understand by it? What underlay it? Was it a cryptic message?

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Poor General Epanchin "put his foot in it" by answering the above questions in his own way. He said there was no cryptic message at all. As for the hedgehog, it was just a hedgehog, which meant nothing--unless, indeed, it was a pledge of friendship,--the sign of forgetting of offences and so on. At all events, it was a joke, and, of course, a most pardonable and innocent one.

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We may as well remark that the general had guessed perfectly accurately.

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The prince, returning home from the interview with Aglaya, had sat gloomy and depressed for half an hour. He was almost in despair when Colia arrived with the hedgehog.

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Then the sky cleared in a moment. The prince seemed to arise from the dead; he asked Colia all about it, made him repeat the story over and over again, and laughed and shook hands with the boys in his delight.

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It seemed clear to the prince that Aglaya forgave him, and that he might go there again this very evening; and in his eyes that was not only the main thing, but everything in the world.

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"What children we are still, Colia!" he cried at last, enthusiastically,--"and how delightful it is that we can be children still!"

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"Simply--my dear prince,--simply she is in love with you,--that’s the whole of the secret!" replied Colia, with authority.

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The prince blushed, but this time he said nothing. Colia burst out laughing and clapped his hands. A minute later the prince laughed too, and from this moment until the evening he looked at his watch every other minute to see how much time he had to wait before evening came.

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But the situation was becoming rapidly critical.

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Mrs. Epanchin could bear her suspense no longer, and in spite of the opposition of husband and daughters, she sent for Aglaya, determined to get a straightforward answer out of her, once for all.

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"Otherwise," she observed hysterically, "I shall die before evening."

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It was only now that everyone realized to what a ridiculous dead- lock the whole matter had been brought. Excepting feigned surprise, indignation, laughter, and jeering--both at the prince and at everyone who asked her questions,--nothing could be got out of Aglaya.

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Lizabetha Prokofievna went to bed and only rose again in time for tea, when the prince might be expected.

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She awaited him in trembling agitation; and when he at last arrived she nearly went off into hysterics.

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Muishkin himself came in very timidly. He seemed to feel his way, and looked in each person’s eyes in a questioning way,--for Aglaya was absent, which fact alarmed him at once.

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This evening there were no strangers present--no one but the immediate members of the family. Prince S. was still in town, occupied with the affairs of Evgenie Pavlovitch’s uncle.

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"I wish at least HE would come and say something!" complained poor Lizabetha Prokofievna.

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The general sat still with a most preoccupied air. The sisters were looking very serious and did not speak a word, and Lizabetha Prokofievna did not know how to commence the conversation.

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All present realized that the moment for the settlement of perplexities had arrived.

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"Did you get my hedgehog?" she inquired, firmly and almost angrily.

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