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Chapter five, Part three, the
quadrille began, Will you allow me,

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your excellency, asked Akim Petrovitch,
holding the bottle of respectful in his hands

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and preparing to pour from it into
his Excellency's glass. I really don't know

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whether, but Akim Petrovitch, with
reverent and readiant face, was already feeling

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the glass. After feeling the glass, he proceeded, rising and wriggling,

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as it were, stealthily, as
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out some with this difference that he
did not feel his own glass to within

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a finger length of the top,
and this seemed somehow more respectful. He

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was like a woman into a veil, as he said beside his chief,

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what could she talk about? Indeed, yet, to entertain his excellency was

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an absolute duty, since he had
the honor of keeping him company. The

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Champagne served as a resource, and
his Excellency too was pleased that he had

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filled his glass. Not for the
sake of the champagne, for it was

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warm and perfectly abominable, but just
morally pleased. The old chap would like

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to have a drink himself, thought
Ivan Elijah. But he doesn't venture till

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I do. I mustn't prevent him, and indeed it would be absurd for

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the bottle to stand between as untouched. He took a sip. Anyway,

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it seemed better than sitting doing nothing. I'm here, he said, with

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pauses and emphasis. I am here, you know, so to speak accidentally,

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And of course it may be that
some people would consider it unseemly for

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me to be at such a gathering. Akim Petrovitch said nothing, but listened

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with timid curiosity. But I hope
you will understand with what object I have

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come. I haven't really come simply
to drink wine. He Akim Petrovitch tied

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to chuckle, following the example of
his excellency, But again you could not

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get it out. And again he
made absolutely no consolatory answer. I'm here

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in order sought to speak, it
to encouraged to to show, so to

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speak, a moral aim. Ivan
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but she suddenly subsided into silence himself. He saw that poor Akim Petrovitch

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had dropped his eyes as though he
were in fault. The General, in

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some confusion, made haste to take
another sip from his glass, and Akim

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Petrovitch clutched at the bottle as though
it were his only hope of salvation,

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and filled the glass again. You
haven't many resources, thought Ivan Elitch,

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looking sternly at poor Akim Petrovitch.
The latter, feeling that stern general like

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eye upon him, made up his
mind to remain silent for good and not

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to raise his eyes. So they
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minutes, two sickly minutes for Akim
Petrovitch. A couple of words about Akim

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Petrovitch. He was a man of
the old school, as meek, as

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a hen, reared from infancy to
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a good natured and even honorable man. He was a Petersburg Russian. That

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is, his father and his father's
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served in Petersburg, and had never
once left Petersburg. That is quite a

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special type of Russian. They have
hardly any idea of Russia, though that

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does not trouble them at all.
Their whole interest is confined to Petersburg,

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and chiefly the place in which they
served, or they thoughts are concentrated on

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preference for fathing points on the shop
and a month's salary. They don't know

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a single Russian custom, a single
Russian song except Lachinashka, and that only

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because it is played on the barrel
organs. However, there are two fundamental

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and invariable signs by which you can
at once distinguish a Petersburg Russian from a

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real Russian. The first sign is
the fact that Petersburg Russians all without exception,

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speak of the newspaper as the academic
News, and never call it the

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Petersburg News. The second and tiqually
trustworthy sign is that Petersburg Russians never make

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use of the word breakfast, but
always call it frushtuk, with a special

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emphasis on the first syllable. By
these radical and distinguishing signs you can tell

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them apart. In short, this
is a humble type which has been formed

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during the last thirty five years.
Akim Petrovitch, however, was by no

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means a fool. If the general
had asked him a question about anything in

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his own province, he would have
answered and kept up a conversation. As

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it was, it was unseemly for
a subordinate even to answer such questions as

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these, though Akim Petrovitch was dying
from curiosity to know something more detailed about

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his Excellency's real intentions. And meanwhile, ivan Elich sank more and more into

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meditation and a sort of weir of
ideas. In his absorption. He sipped

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his glass every half minute, Akim
Petrovitch at once zealously filled it up.

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Both were silent. Ivan Elich began
looking at the dances, and immediately something

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attracted his attention. One circumstance even
surprised him. The dances were certainly lively.

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Here people danced in the simplicity of
their hearts to amuse themselves and even

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to romp wildly among the dancers who
were really skillful, but the unskilled stamped

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so vigorously that they might have been
taken for agile ones. The officer was

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among the foremost. He particularly liked
the figures in which he was left alone

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to perform a solo. Then he
performed the most marvelous capers. For instance,

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standing upright as a post, he
would suddenly bend over to one side,

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so that one expected him to fall
over, But with the next step

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he would suddenly bend over in the
opposite direction, at the same acute angle

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to the floor. He kept the
most serious face and danced in the full

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conviction that everyone was watching him.
Another gentleman, who had had rather more

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than he could carry before the quadrille, dropped a slip beside his partner,

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so that his partner had to dance
alone. The young registration clerk, who

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had danced with the lady in the
blue scarf through all the figures and through

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all the five quadrilles which they had
danced that evening, played the same rank

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the whole time. That is,
he dropped a little behind his partner,

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seized the end of her scarf,
and then they crossed over succeeded in imprinting

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some twenty kisses on the scarf.
His partner sailed along in front of him

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as though she noticed nothing. The
medical student really did dance on his head

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and excited frantic enthusiasm, stamping,
and shrieks of delight. In short,

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the absence of constraint was very marked. Ivan elight, whom the wine was

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beginning to effect, began by smiling, but by degrees a bitter doubt began

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to steal into his heart. Of
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and unconventionality he desired. He had
even inwardly prayed for free and easy manners

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when they had all held back.
But now that unconventionality had gone beyond all

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limits. One lady, for instance, the one in the shabby dark blue

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velvet dress bought fourth hand in the
sixth figure, pinned her dressed so as

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to turn it into something like trousers. This was the Cleopatra Semyonovna, with

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whom one could venture to do anything. As her partner, the medical student

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had expressed it. The medical student
defied description. He was simply a fokin.

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How was it they had held back, and now they were so quickly

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emancipated. One might think it nothing, But this transformation was somehow strange.

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It indicated something. It was as
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Of course, he was the first
to laugh, and even ventured to applaud.

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Akim Petrovitch chuckled respectfully in unison,
though indeed with evident pleasure and no

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suspicion that his excellency was beginning to
nourish in his heart a new knowing anxiety.

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Udan's capitally young man Ivan Eliich was
obliged to say to the medical student

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as he walked past him. The
student turned sharply towards him, made a

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grimace, and, bringing his face
close into unseemly proximity to the face of

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his excellency, crowed like a cock
at the top of his voice. This

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was too much. Ivan Elitch got
up from the table. In spite of

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that. A roar of inexpressible laughter
followed. For the crowd was an extraordinarily

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good imitation, and the whole performance
was utterly unexpected. Ivan Elitch was still

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standing and bewilderment when suddenly Pseldonimov himself
made his appearance, and with a bow,

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began begging him to come to supper. His mother followed him, Your

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excellency, she said, bowing,
do us the honor, Do not disdain

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our humble fare. I really don't
know, ivan Elitch was beginning. I

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did not come with that idea.
I meant to be going. He was,

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in fact holding his hat in his
hands. What is more, he

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had at that very moment taken an
inward vow at all costs to depart at

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once, and on no account whatever
to consent to remain, and he remained.

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A minute later, he led the
procession to the table. Pseldonimov and

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his mother walked in front, clearing
the way for him. They made him

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sit down in the seat of honor, and again a bottle of champagne,

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opened but not begun, was set
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There were salt, herrings and vodka. He put out his hand,

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poured out a large glass of vodka
and drank it off. He had never

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drunk vodka before. He felt as
though he were rolling down a hill,

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were flying, flying, flying,
that he must stop himself, catch at

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something, but there was no possibility
of it. His position was certainly becoming

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more and more eccentric. What is
more, or it seemed as though fate

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were mocking at him. God knows
what had happened to him in the course

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of an hour or so. When
he went in he had, so to

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say, opened his arms to embrace
all humanity, all his subordinates. And

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here not more than an hour had
passed, And in all his aching heart

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he felt and knew that he hated
Pseldonimov, and was cursing him, his

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wife and his wedding. What was
more, he saw from his face,

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from his eyes alone that Pseldonimov himself
hated him, that he was looking at

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him with eyes that almost said,
if only you would take yourself off,

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curse you foisting yourself on us.
All this he had read for some time

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in his eyes. Of course,
as he sat down to table, Ivan

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Elitch would sooner have had his hand
cut off than have owned, not only

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aloud but even to himself that this
was really so. The moment had not

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fully arrived yet. There was still
a moral vacillation. But his heart,

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his heart, it ached, It
was clamoring for freedom, for air,

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for rest. Ivan Elighth was really
too good natured. He knew, of

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course, that he had long before
to have gone away, not merely to

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have gone away, but to have
made his escape. That all this was

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not the same, but had turned
out utterly different from what he had dreamed

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of on the pavement. Why did
I come? Did I come here to

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eat and drink? He asked himself
as he tasted the salt herring. He

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even had attacks of skepticism. There
was at times the faint stare of irony

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in regard to his own fine action. At the bottom of his heart,

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he actually wondered at times why he
had come in but how could she go

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away? To go away like this
without having finished the business properly was impossible.

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What would people say? They would
say that he was frequenting low company.

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Indeed, it really would amount to
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properly. What would Stepan Nikifolovitch Samuel
Ivanovitch say, For of course, it

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would be all over the place by
tomorrow. What would be said in the

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offices, at their shambles, at
the shabbins. No, he must take

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his departure in such a way that
all should understand why he had come.

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He must make clear his moral aim, and meantime the dramatic moment would not

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present itself. They don't even respect
me, he went on, thinking,

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what are they laughing at? They
are as free and easy, as though

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they had no feeling. But I
have long suspected that all the younger generation

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are without feeling. I must remain
at all costs. They have just been

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dancing. But now at table they
will all be gathered together. I will

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talk about questions about reforms, about
the greatness of Russia. I can still

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win their enthusiasm. Yes, perhaps
nothing is yet lost. Perhaps it is

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always like this in reality. What
should I begin upon with them to attract

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them. What plague can I hit
upon? I am lost, simply lost?

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And what is it they want?
What is it they require? I

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see they are laughing together. There
can it be at me? Merciful heavens?

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But what is it I want?
Why is it? I am here?

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Why don't I go away? Why
do I go on persisting? He

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thought this, and a sort of
shame, a deep unbearable shame, rant

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his heart more and more intensely.
But everything went on in the same way,

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one thing after another. Just two
minutes after he had sat down to

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the table, one terrible thought overwhelmed
him completely. He suddenly felt that you

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was horribly drunk. That is,
not as he was before, but hopelessly

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drunk. The cause of this was
the glass of vodka which he had drunk

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after the champagne, and which had
immediately produced an effect. He was conscious.

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He felt in every fiber of his
being that he was growing hopelessly feeble.

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Of course, his assurance was greatly
increased, but consciousness had not deserted

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him, and it kept crying out. It is bad, very bad,

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and in fact utterly unseemly. Of
course, his unstable drunken reflections could not

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rest long on one subject. There
began to be apparent, and unmistakably so,

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even to himself, two opposite sides. On one side there was swaggering

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assurance, a desire to conquer,
a disdain of obstacles, and a desperate

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confidence that he would attain his object. The other side showed itself in the

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aching of his heart, and a
sort of gnawing in his soul. What

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would they say? How would it
all end? What would happen to morrow?

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To morrow? To morrow? He
had felt vaguely before that he had

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enemies in the company, No doubt, that was because I was drunk,

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he thought, with agonizing doubt.
What was his horror when he actually,

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by unmistakable signs, convinced himself now
that he really had enemies at the table,

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and that it was impossible to doubt
of it? And why why he

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wondered? At the table there were
all the thirty guests, of whom several

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were quite tipsy. Others were behaving
with a careless and sinister independence, shouting

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and talking at the top of their
voices, bawling out the toasts before the

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time, and petting the ladies with
pellets of bread. One unprepossessing personage in

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a greasy coat had fallen off his
chair as soon as he sat down,

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and remained so till the end of
supper. Another one made desperate efforts to

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stand on the table to propose a
toast, and only the officer who seized

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him by the tails of his coat
moderated his premature ardor The supper was a

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pellmell affair, although they had hired
a cook who had been in the service

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of a general. There was the
galantine, There was tongue and potatoes.

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There were risoles with green peas.
There was finally a goose, and last

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of all, blancmange. Among the
drinks were beer, vodka, and sherry.

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The only bottle of champagne was standing
beside a general, which obliged him

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to pour it out for himself and
also for Akim Petrovitch, who did not

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venture at supper to officiate on his
own initiative. The other guests had to

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drink the toasts in Caucasian wine or
anything else they could get. The table

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was made up of several tables put
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It was covered with many tablecloths,
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The gentleman said alternately, with the
ladies, Pseldonimov's mother would not sit down

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to the table. She bustled about
and supervised. But another sinister female figure

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who had not shown herself till then
appeared on the scene, wearing a reddish

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silk dress, with a very high
cap on her head and a bandage round

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her face for toothache. It appeared
that this was the bride's mother, who

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had at last consented to emerge from
a back room for supper. She had

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refused to appear since then owing to
her implacable hostility to Pseldonimov's mother, But

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to that we will refer later.
This lady looked spitefully, even sarcastically,

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at the General and evidently did not
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Ivan Elite, this figure appeared suspicious
in the extreme, but apart from her,

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several other persons were suspicious and inspired
in voluntary apprehension and uneasiness. It

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even seemed that they were in some
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At any rate, it seemed so
to him, and throughout the whole supper

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he became more and more convinced of
it. A gentleman with a beard,

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some sort of free artist, was
particularly sinister. He even looked at taivan

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Elija several times, and then turning
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Another person present was unmistakably drunk,
but yet from certain signs, was to

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be regarded with suspicion. The medical
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Even the officer himself was not quite
to be depended on. But the

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young man on the comic paper was
blazing with hatred. He loved in his

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chair. He looked so haughty and
conceded his snort so aggressively. And though

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the rest of the guests took absolutely
no notice of the young journalists, who

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had contributed only four wretched poems to
the firebrand, and had consequently become a

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liberal and evidently indeed disliked him,
yet when a pellet of bread aimed in

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his direction fell near ivan Elich,
he was ready to stake his head that

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it had been thrown by no other
than the young men in question. All

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this, of course, had a
pitiable effect on him. Another observation was

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particularly unpleasant. Ivan Elich became aware
that he was beginning to articulate indistinctly and

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with difficulty, that she was longing
to say a great deal, but that

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his tongue refused to obey him.
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And worst of all, he would
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laughter, a proposed nothing. This
inclination quickly passed off after a glance of

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champagne, which ivan Elitch had not
meant to drink, though he had poured

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it out and suddenly drunk it quite
by accident. After that glass, he

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felt at once almost inclined to cry. He felt that he was sinking into

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a most peculiar state of sentimentality.
He began to be again filled with love.

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He loved everyone, even Pseldonimov,
even the young man on the economic

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paper. He suddenly longed to embrace
all of them, to forget everything,

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and to be reconciled. What is
more, to tell them everything openly,

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all all that is, to tell
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with what wonderful talents, what services
he would do for his country,

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how good he was at entertaining the
fair sex, and above all, how

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progressive he was, how humanely ready. He was to be indulgent to all,

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to the very lowest, and finally, in conclusion, to tell them,

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frankly, all the motives that had
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uninvited, to drink two bottles of
champagne and to make him happy with his

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presence, the truth, the holy
truth, and candor before all things.

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I will capture them by candor.
They will believe me. I see it

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clearly. They actually look at me
with hostility. But when I tell them

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all, I shall conquer them completely. They will fill their glasses and drink

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my health with shouts. The officer
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Perhaps they will even shout Hurrah.
Even if they want to toss me after

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the Hussar fashion, I will not
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very jolly. I will kiss the
bride on her forehead. She is charming.

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Akim Petrovitch is a very nice man
too. Pseldonimov will improve, of

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course later on. He will acquire, so to speak, a society polish

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and although of course the younger generation
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I will talk to them about the
contemporary significance of Russia among the European

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states. I would refer to the
peasant question too, Yes, and they

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will all like me, and I
shall live with glory. These dreams were,

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of course extremely agreeable. But what
was unpleasant was that in the midst

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of these rosyate anticipations, ivan Elich
suddenly discovered in himself another unexpected propensity,

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that was to spit. Anyway,
Saliva began running from his mouth apart from

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any will of his own. He
observed this on Akim Petrovitch, whose cheeks

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he spluttered upon, and who said, not daring to wipe it off from

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respectfulness, ivan Elich took his dinner
napkin and wiped himself. But this immediately

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struck him himself as so incongruous,
so opposed to all common sense, that

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he sank into silence, and again
wondering, though Akim Petrovitch emptied his glass,

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yet he said as though he were
scolded. Ivan Elitch reflected now that

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he had for almost a quarter of
an hour been talking to him about some

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most interesting subjects. But the Attakim
Petrovitch had not only seemed embarrassed as he

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listened, but positively frightened. Pseldonimov
who was sitting one chair away from him,

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also craned his neck towards him,
and, bending his head sideways,

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listened to him with the most unpleasant
air. He actually seemed to be keeping

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a watch on him. Turning his
eyes upon the rest of the company,

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he saw that many were looking straight
at him and laughing. But what we

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strangest of all was that he was
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On the contrary, he sipped his
glass again and suddenly began speaking so that

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all could hear. I was saying
just now, he began, as loudly

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as possible. I was saying,
just now, ladies and gentlemen, to

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Akim Petrovitch, that Russia, Yes, Russia. In short, you understand

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that I mean to say, Russia
is living. It is my profound conviction

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through a period of humanity. Hu
humanity was heard at the other end of

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the table. H two too.
Ivan elij stopped, said, Donivov,

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got up from his chain, began
trying to see who had shouted. Akim

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Petrovitch stealthily shook his head as though
admonishing the guests. Ivan Elij so this

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distinctly, but in his confusion said
nothing. Humanity, he continued, obstinately,

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And this evening, and only this
evening, I said to Stepan Niki

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Foovich, Yes, that that the
Regeneration sought to speak of things, your

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excellency, was heard a loud exclamation
at the other end of the table.

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What is your pleasure? Answered Ivan
Elich, pulled up short and trying to

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distinguish who had called to him,
Nothing at all, your excellency, I

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was carried away, continued Contine knew. The voice was heard again. Ivan

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Elich felt upset the regeneration so to
speak of those same things, your excellency,

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The voice shouted again, What do
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This time Ivan Elizch could not restrain
himself. He broke off his speech

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and tent to the assailant who had
disturbed the general harmony, who was a

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very young lad still at school,
who had taken more than a drop too

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much, and was an object of
great suspicion to the general. He had

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been shouting for a long time past, and had even broken a glass and

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two plates, maintaining that this was
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At the moment when Ivan Elijah turned
towards him, The officer was beginning

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to pitch into the noisy youngster.
What are you about? Why are you

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yelling? We shall turn you out, that's what we shall do. I

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don't mean you, your excellency,
I don't mean you, continue, cried

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the hilarious schoolboy, lulling back in
his chair. Continue. I am listening,

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and am very very very much pleased
with you. Praise worthy, praise

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worthy. The wretched boys drunk,
said Ldonimov in a whisper. I see

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that he is drunk. But I
was just telling a very amusing anecdote,

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Your excellency, began the officer about
a lieutenant in our company who was talking

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just like that to his superior officers. So this young man is imitating him

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now, to every word of his
superior officers. He said, praiseworthy,

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praiseworthy. He was turned out of
the army ten years ago on account of

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it. What lieutenant was that in
our company? Your excellency, He went

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out of his mind over the word
praiseworthy. At first they tried gentle methods.

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Then they put him under arrest.
His commanding officer admonished him in the

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most fatherly way, and he answered, praiseworthy, praiseworthy and strange to say.

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The officer was a fine looking man, over six feet. They meant

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to court martial him, but then
they perceived that he was mad, so

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as schoolboy, as schoolboys, prank
need not be taken seriously. For my

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part, I am ready to overlook
it. They had a medical inquiry or

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excellency upon my word. But he
was alive, wasn't he? What did

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they decept him? A loud and
almost universal role of laughter resounded among the

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guests, till then behaved with decorum. Ivan Eliit was furious, ladies and

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gentlemen, She shouted, at first, a scartly stammering, I'm fully capable

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of apprehending that a man is not
dissected alive. I imagined that in his

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arrangement he had ceased to be alive, that is, that he had died.

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That is I mean to say that
you don't like me, and yet

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I like you all. Yes,
I like poor poor fiy. I'm larn

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myself by speaking like this. At
that moment, ivan Elitch splutted so that

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a great deb of saliva flew onto
the tablecloth in a most conspicuous place.

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Seldonimov flew to wipe it off with
a table napkin. This last disaster crushed

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him completely. My friends, this
is too much, she cried in despair.

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The man is drunk. Your excellency, Pseldonimov prompted him again. Porfiry,

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I see that you all yes.
I say that I hope yes.

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I call upon you all to tell
me in what way have I lowered myself?

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Ivan Elight was almost crying, your
excellency, good heavens Porphyry. I

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appealed to you tell me when I
came yes yes to your wedding. I

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had an object. I was aiming
at moral elevation. I wanted it to

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be felt. I appealed to all, am, I greatly lowered in your

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eyes? Or not? A deathlike
silence? That was just it, a

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deathlike silence, and to such a
downright question. They might at least shout

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at this minute flashed through his Excellency's
head, but the guests only looked at

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one another. Akim Petrovitch said,
more dead than alive, while Pseldonimov,

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numb with terror, was repeating to
himself the awful question which had occurred to

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him more than once already. What
shall I have to pay for all this

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tomorrow? At this point, the
young man on the comic paper, who

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was very drunk but who had hitherto
set in morow silence, addressed Ivan Elija

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directly, and with flashing eyes,
began answering in the name of the whole

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company. Yes, he said,
in a loud voice. Yes, you

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have lowered yourself. Yes, you
are a reactionary. Reactionary young man,

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you are forgetting yourself. To whom
are you speaking? So to express it,

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Ivan Elich cried furiously, jumping up
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And secondly, I am not a
young man. You've come to give yourself

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airs and tried to win popularity.
Pseldonimov, What does this mean? Cried

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Ivan Elij. But Pseldonimov was reduced
to such horror that she stood still like

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a post and was utterly at a
loss what to do. The guests,

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too, said mutes in their seats, all but the artist and the schoolboy,

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who applauded and shouted Bravo, bravo. The young men on the comic

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paper went on shouting with unrestrained violence. Yet you came to show off your

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humanity. You've hindered the enjoyment of
everyone. You've been drinking Champagne, without

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thinking that it is beyond the means
of a clerk at ten roubles a month.

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And I suspect that you are one
of those high officials who are a

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little too fond of the young wives
of their clerks. What is more,

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I am convinced that you support state
monopolies. Yes, yes, yes,

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Pseldonimov. Pseldonimov shouted Ivan Eliche,
holding out his hands to him. He

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felt that every word uttered by the
comic young man was a fresh dagger at

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his heart directly, Your excellency,
please do not disturb yourself, Pseldonimov cried,

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energetically, rush up to the coming
young man, seizing him by the

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collar and dragging him away from the
table. Such physical strengths could indeed not

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have been expected from the weakly looking
Pseldonimov. But the comic young man was

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very drunk, while Pseldonimov was perfectly
sober. Then he gave him two or

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three cups in the bag and thrust
him out of the door. Your roll

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scoundrels, wrote the young man of
the comic paper. I will caricature you

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all tomorrow in the Firebrand. They
all leapt up from their seats, Your

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excellency, Your excellency, cried Cheldonimov, his mother and several others crowding around

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the General. Your excellency, do
not be disturbed. No, no,

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cried the General. I am annihilated. I came. I meant to bless

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you, so to speak, and
this is how I am paid for everything

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everything. He sank on to a
chair as though unconscious, laid both his

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arms on the table, and bowed
his head over them, straight into a

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plate of blanmane. There is no
need to describe the general horror. A

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minute later, he got up,
evidently meaning to go out, gave a

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lurch, stumbled against the leg of
a chair, fell full length on the

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floor, and snort. This is
what is apt to happen to men who

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don't drink when they accidentally take a
glass too much. They preserved their consciousness

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to the last point, to the
last minute, and then fall to the

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ground as though struck down. Ivan
Elich lay on the floor absolutely unconscious.

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Pseldonimov clutched at his hair and sat
as though petrified. In that position.

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The guests made haste to depart,
commending each in his own way on the

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incident. It was about three o'clock
in the morning. End of Chapter five,

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Part three,