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Another man's wife or the husband under
the bed an extraordinary adventure. Ivan Andritch

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felt that he had come to the
wrong place, that he had made a

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silly, childish blunder, that he
had acted without due consideration, that he

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had not been sufficiently cautious on the
landing. But there was no help for

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it. The door was already opening. Already the heavy husband, that is,

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if he could be judged by his
footsteps, was coming into the room.

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I don't know what ivan Andritch took
himself to be at that moment.

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I don't know what prevented him from
confronting the husband, telling him that he

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had made a mistake, confessing that
he had unintentionally the aged in the most

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unseemly way, making his apologies,
and vanishing, not of course with blind

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colors, not of course with glory, but at any rate, departing in

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an and gentlemanly manner. But no
Ivan Andretch again behaved like a boy,

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as though he considered himself a Don
Juan or a lovelace. He first hid

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himself behind the curtain of the bed, and finally, feeling utterly dejected and

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hopeless, he dropped on the floor
and senselessly crept under the bed. Terror

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had more influence on him than reason, and Ivan andrech himself an injured husband,

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or at any rate, a husband
who considered himself such, could not

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face meeting another husband, but was
afraid to wound him by his presence.

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Fee this as it may, he
found himself under the bed, though he

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had no idea how it had come
to pass. But what was more surprising,

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the lady made no opposition. She
did not cry out on seeing an

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utterly unknown, elderly gentleman seek a
refuge under her bed. Probably she was

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so alarmed that she was deprived of
all power of speech. The husband walked

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in, gasping and clearing his throat, said good evening to his wife in

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a sing song elderly voice, and
plopped into an easy chair, as though

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he had just been carrying up a
load of wood. There was a sound

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of a hollow and prolonged call.
Ivan Andritsch transformed from a ferocious tiger to

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a lamb, timid and meek as
a mouse before a cat, scarcely dared

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to breathe. Or terror, though
he might have known from his own experience

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that not all injured husband's bite.
But this idea did not enter his head,

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either from lack of consideration or from
agitation of some sort. Cautiously,

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softly feeling his way, he began
to get right under the bed so as

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to lie more comfortably there. What
was his amazement when with his hand he

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felt an object, which, to
his intense amazement, stirred, and in

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its turn seized his hand under the
bed. There was another person, who's

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this, whispered Ivan Andretch. Well, I am not likely to tell you

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who I am, whispered the strange
man. LI steal and keep quiet if

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you have made a mess of things. But I say, hold your tongue.

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And the extra gentleman, for one, was quite enough under the bed.

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The extra gentleman squeezed Ivan Andreitch's hand
in his fist, so that the

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latter almost tricked with pain. My
dear sir, sh then don't thinsh me

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so, or I shall scream fright, scream away? Try it on,

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Ivan Andritch flushed with shame. The
unknown gentleman was sulky and ill humored.

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Perhaps it was a man who had
suffered more than once from the persecutions of

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fate, and had more than once
been in a tight place. But Ivan

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Andrech was a novice and could not
breathe in his constricted position. The blood

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rushed to his head. However there
was no help for it. He had

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to lie on the s face.
Ivan Andretch submitted and was silent. I

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have been to see Pavel Ivanitch,
my love began the husband. We sat

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down to a game of preference.
He had a fitner coughing yes, so

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my back with bother it. The
old gentleman became engrossed in his cough,

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but back he brought out at last, with tears in his eyes. I

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spine began to eight, damn hammerroid. I can't stand, nor sit or

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sit. And it seemed as though
the cough that followed was designed to last

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longer than the old gentleman in possession
of it. The old gentleman grumbled something

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in its intervals, but it was
utterly impossible to make out a word.

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Dear sir, for goodness sake,
move a little, whispered the unhappy Ivananvretch,

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how cannot There's no room, But
you must admit that it is impossible

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for me. It is the first
time that I have found myself in such

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a nasty position, and I in
such unpleasant society. But young man,

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hold your tongue. Hope my tongue. You are very uncivil, young man.

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If I am not mistaken, you
are very young. I am your

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senior. Ope your tongue, My
dear sir, you are forgetting yourself.

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You don't know to whom you are
talking to, A gentleman lying under the

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bed. I was taken by surprise, a mistake, while in your case.

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If I am not mistaken, immorality, that's where you are mistaken,

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my dear sir, I am older
than you. I tell you, sir,

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we are in the same boat.
You know. I beg you not

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to take hold of my face.
Sir, I can't tell one thing from

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another. Excuse me, but I
have no room. You shouldn't be so

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fat, heavens, I have never
been in such a degrading position. Yes,

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one couldn't be brought more low,
Sir, Sir, I don't know

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who you are. I don't understand
how this came about. But I am

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here by mistake. I am not
what you think. I shouldn't think about

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you at all. If you didn't
shove, but hold your tongue, do,

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sir. If you don't move a
little, I shall have a stroke.

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You will have to answer for my
debt. I assure you I am

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a respectable man. I am the
father of a family. I really cannot

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be in such a position to thrust
yourself into the position. Come move a

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little. I've made room for you. I can't do more, noble young

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man, Dear sir, I see
I was mistaken about you, said ivan

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Andretsch, in a transport of gratitude
for the space allowed him, and stretching

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out his grant lens. I understand
your constructed condition, but there's no help

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for it. I see you think
ill of me. Allow me to redeem

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my reputation in your eyes. Allow
me to tell you who I am.

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I have come here against my will. I assure you I am not here

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with the object you imagine. I
am in a terrible fright. Oh,

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do shut up. Understand that if
we are overheard, it will be the

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worst for us. He is talking. The old gentleman's cough did in fact

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seem to be over I tell you
what, my love. He wheezed in

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the most lacrymost chain, I tell
you what, my love, Oh,

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what an affliction farowsy Ivanovitch said to
me, you should try drinking yarow tea,

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he said to me, do you
hear alone? Yes, dear,

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yes, that is what he said. You should try drinkyote, he said.

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I told him I had good on
leeches, but he said, no,

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Alexander Damianovich tee is better. It's
a laxative, I tell you.

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Oh, dear, what do you
think? My luck? Oh? My

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god? How did I better try
yarrow teak? Okay cock and so on?

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I think it would be just as
well to drive that remedy, said

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his wife. Yes, it would
be you. Maybe. In consumption,

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he said, higg. I told
him it was gout and irritability of the

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stomach, guck, but he would
have it that it might be consumption.

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What do you think, Ugh,
what do you think, my love?

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Is it consumption? My goodness,
what are you talking about? Why?

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Consumption? You had better unrest than
go to bed now, my love,

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I've caught the cold in my head
today, said Ivan, andritch Cocks said,

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to move a little. I really
don't know what is the matter with

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you? Can't you lie still?
You are exasperated against me, young man.

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You want to wound me. I
see that you are. Are I

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suppose this lady's lover. Shut up. I will not shut up. I

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will allow you to order me about. You are, no doubt her lover.

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If we are discovered, I am
not to blame in any way.

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I know nothing about it. If
you don't hold your tone, said the

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young man, grinding his teeth,
I will say that you brought me here.

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I'll say that you are my uncle
who has dissipated his fortune. Then

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they won't imagine I am this lady's
lover anyway. Sir, you are amusing

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yourself at my expense. You are
exhausting my patience. Hush or I will

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make you hush. You are accursed
to me. Come tell me what you

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are here for. If you are
not here, I could lie here somehow

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till morning and then get away.
But I can't lie here till morning.

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I am a respectable man. I
have family ties. Of course, What

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do you think? Surely he is
not going to spend the night here?

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Who why this old gentleman? Of
course he will. All husbands aren't like

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you. Some of them spend their
nights at home. My dear sir,

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my dear sir, cried Ivan Andritch, turning cold with terror. I assure

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you I spend my nights at home
too, and this is the first time.

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But by god, I see you
know me? Who are you,

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young man? Tell me at once? I beseech you from disinterested friendship?

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Who are you? Listen? I
shall resort to violence, but allow me,

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allow me, sir, to tell
you, allow me to explain all

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this horror business. I won't listen
to any explanation. I don't want to

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know anything about it. Be silent
or but I cannot. A slight skirmish

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took place under the bed, and
Ivan Rich subsided my love It's hounds,

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and so there were cats, hissing
cats. What will you imagine next?

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Evidently the lady did not know what
to talk to her husband about. She

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was so upset that she could not
pull herself together. Now she started and

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pricked up her ears. What cats
cats, my love? The other day

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I went into my study and there
was the tom cat in my study and

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his it shoot shoo shoo. I
said to him, what is it,

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pussy? And he went choo chook
choo again, as though he were whispering.

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I thought, first of all,
heavens, isn't he hissing as a

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sign of my dead? What nonsense
are you talking today. You ought to

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be ashamed. Really, never mind, don't be cross, my love.

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I see you don't like to think
of me. Done, I didn't mean

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it, but you had better undressed
and it to bed, my love,

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And I'll sit here while you go
to bed for goodness sakes, leave off

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afterwards. Well, don't be crossed, so becrouse. But really I think

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there must be mice sere? Why
first cats and then mice? I really

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don't know what is the matter with
you? Oh? I am all right

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up, I never mind. Oh
look you hear you are making such an

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upset that he hears you whispers the
young man. But if you knew what

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is happening to me? My nose
is bleeding, let it blead, shut

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up, wait till he goes away. But young man, put yourself in

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my place? Why? I don't
know with whom I am lying? Would

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you be better off if you did? Why? I don't want to know

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your name? By the way,
what is your name? You know?

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What do you want with my name? I only want to explain the sense

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this way in which is speaking again? Really, my love, there is

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whispering. Oh no, it's the
cotton wool, and your ears has got

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out of place. Help by the
way, talking of the cotton wool.

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Do you know that upstairs, upstairs
and so on upstairs? Whispered the young

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man off the devil. I thought
that this was the top story. Can

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it be? The second young man, whispered Ivan Andritch, What did you

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say? For goodness sakes? Why
does he concern you? I thought it

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was the top story too. Tell
me, for God's sake, is there

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another story? Really? Someone is
stirring, said the old man, leaving

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all call at last. Hush,
do you hear, whispered the young man,

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squeezing iron Andreyitch's hands. Sir,
you are holding my hands by force.

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Let me go. Hush. A
slight struggle followed, and then there

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was a silence again. So I
met a pretty woman, began the old

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man. A pretty woman, interrupted
his wife. Yes, I thought I

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told you before that I met a
pretty woman now the stairs, Or perhaps

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I did not mention it. My
memory is weak. Yes, Saint John's

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wark. What I must drink?
Saint John's work. They say it does

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good, It does good. It
was you, interrupted him, said the

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young man, grinding his teeth.
Again, you said you met some pretty

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woman today. His wife went on
Hi met a pretty woman? Who did?

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Why didn't you I when? Oh, yes, at last, what

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a moment, well, whispered the
young man, inwardly raging at the forgetful

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old gentleman. My dear, sir, I am trembling with horror. My

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god, what do I hear?
It's like yesterday? Exactly like yesterday.

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Hush, yes, to be sure, I remember a slious such eyes in

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a blue hat, in a blue
hat. I I it's she. She

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has a blue hat, My god, cried Ivan Andreach. She who is

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she? Whispered the young man,
squeezing Ivan Andreach's hands. Hush, Ivan

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Andreyvitch exhorted in his turn, he
is speaking, Oh my god, my

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god. Tho, after all,
who hasn't a blue hat? It,

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sir, justly, little road,
the old gentleman went on. She comes

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here to see friends. She's always
making eyes, and other friends come to

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see those friends too. Who how
tedious? The lady interrupted, Really,

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how can you take interest in that? Oh? Very well, very well,

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don't be cross, the old gentleman
responded, in a wheedling chant.

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I won't talk if you don't care
to hear me. You seem a little

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out of humor. This evening.
But how did you get here? The

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young man began. I you see
you see now you are interested, and

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before you wouldn't listen. Oh well, I don't care. Please don't tell

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me. Oh damn nation, take
it? What a mess? Don't be

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coarse, young man. I don't
know what I am saying. I didn't

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mean anything. I only meant to
say that there must be some good reason

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for your taking such an interest.
But who are you, young man?

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I see you are a stranger,
But who are you? Oh dear,

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I don't know what I'm saying.
Ah, leave all, please, the

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young man interrupted, as though he
were considering something. But I will tell

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you all about it. You think
perhaps that I will not tell you that

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I feel resentment against you. Oh
no, here is my hand. I

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am only feeling depressed, nothing more. But for God's sake, first tell

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me how you came here yourself through
what chance? As for me, I

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feel no ill will, No,
indeed, I feel no ill will.

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Here is my hand. I have
made it rather dirty. It is so

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dusty here, But that's nothing when
the feeling is true. Ah that way

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with your hand there is no room
to turn, And he keeps thrusting his

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hand on me. But my dear
sir, but you treat me, if

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you will allow me to say so, as though I were an old shoe,

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said ivan Andretch, in a rush
of the meekest despair, in a

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voice full of entreaty. Treat me
a little more civilly, Just a little

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more civilly, and I will tell
you all about it. We might be

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friends. I'm quite ready to ask
you, holy dinner. We can't lie

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here side by side like this.
I tell you plainly, you are in

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error, young man. You do
not know. Why was it he better?

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The young man muttered, evidently in
violent emotion. Perhaps she's expecting me

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now. I'll certainly get away from
here. She who is she? My

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god? Who are you speaking?
Young men? You imagine that U my

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god? My god? Why am
I punished like this? Ivan Andrich tried

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to turn on his back in his
despair. Why do you want to know

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who she is? Oh the devil? Whether it will she or not,

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I will get out, My dear
sir, What are you thinking about?

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What will become of me? Whispered
Ivan Andritch, clutching at the tails of

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his neighbor's dress coat in his despair. Well, what's that to me?

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You can stop here by yourself,
and if you won't, I'll tell them

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that you are my uncle who has
squandered all his property, so that the

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old gentleman won't think that I am
his wife's lover. But that is utterly

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impossible, young man. It's unnatural
I should be your uncle. Nobody would

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believe you. Why a baby wouldn't
believe it? Ivan Andritch whispered in despair.

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Well, don't battle, then,
but lie as flat as a pancake.

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Most likely you will stay the night
here and get out somehow tomorrow.

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No one will notice you. If
one creeps out, it is not likely

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they would think there was another one
here. There might as well be a

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dozen, though you are as good
as it doesn't by yourself. Move a

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little or I'll get out. You
wound me, young man? What if

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I have a fit of coughing?
One has to think of everything. Hush,

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what's that? I fancy? I
hear something going on upstairs? Again,

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said the old gentleman, who seemed
to have had a nap in the

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interval. Upstairs, do you hear, a young man? I shall get

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out? Well I hear, my
goodness, young man, I am going,

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oh, well, I am not
man. I don't care. If

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there is an upset, I don't
mind. But do you know what I

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suspect. I believe you are an
injured husband. So there, good heavens,

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what cynicism can you possibly suspect that? Why a husband? I am

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not married, not married, fiddlesticks. I may be a lover myself,

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A nice lover. My dear sir, my dear sir, Oh, very

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well, I will tell you the
whole story. Listen to my desperate story.

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It is I am not married.
I am a bachelor like you.

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It is my friend, a companion
of my youth. I am a lover.

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He told me that he was an
unhappy man. I am drinking the

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cup of bitterness. He said,
I suspect my wife. Well, I

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said to him, reasonably, why
do you suspect her? But you are

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not listening to me. Yes,
listen, jealousy is ridiculous, I said

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to him. Jealousy is a vice. No, he said, I am

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an unhappy man. I am drinking. That is I suspect my wife.

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You are my friend, and I
said, you are the companion of my

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tender youth. Together we called the
flowers of happiness together. We rolled in

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featherbeds of pleasure. My goodness,
I don't know what I am saying.

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You keep laughing, young mangel,
drive me crazy, But you are crazy

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now there. I knew you would
say that when I talked of being crazy.

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Laugh away, laugh away, young
man. I did the same in

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my day. I too went astray. I shall have inflammation of the brain.

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What is it, my love?
I thought I heard someone's knees,

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the old man chanted. Was that
you sneeze? My love? Oh?

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My goodness, said his wife.
Sounded from under the They must be making

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a noise upstairs, said his wife, alarmed, for there was certainly a

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noise under the bed. Yes,
upstairs, said the husband. Upstairs.

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I told you just now I met
a that I met a young swell with

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mustaches. Oh, dear, my
smie, a young swell with mustaches with

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mustaches. My goodness, that must
have been you, whispered ivan andretch,

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merciful heavens, what a man?
Why I am here lying here with you?

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How could he have met me?
But don't take hold of my face,

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My goodness, I shall think in
a minute. There certainly was a

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loud noise overhead at this moment.
What can be happening there, whispered the

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young man. My dear, sir, I am in alarm, I am

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in terror. Out me hush,
there really is is a noise, my

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love, there's a regular hubbub,
and just over your bedroom too. Haddn't

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I better send up to inquire?
What will you think of next? Oh?

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Well I won't. But really,
how cross you are today? Oh

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dear, you had better go to
bed, Liza. You don't love me

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at all? Oh yes, I
do, for goodness sakes, I am

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so tired. Well, well I
am going. Oh no, no,

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don't go, cried his wife.
Or no, better go? Why what

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is the matter with you? One
minute I am to go, and the

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next I'm nah? It really is
bed. The Panavidans little girl, their

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little girl. I saw their little
girls Nuremberg. Dull. Well, now

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it's dolls, a pretty doll.
He is saying good bye, said the

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young man. He is going,
and we can get away at once.

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De here you can rejoice. Oh
God, granted, it's a lesson to

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you, you man, a lesson
for what I feel it. But you

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are young. You cannot teach me. I will, though. Listen,

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Oh dear, I'm going to knees. I should you dare? But what

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can I do? There is such
a smell of vice here. Can't help

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it. Take my handkerchief out of
my pocket. I can't stir out.

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My god, one God, why
am I so punished? Here's your handkerchief.

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I will tell you what you are
punished for. You are jealous.

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Goodness knows on what grounds. You
rush about like a madman, burst into

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other people's flags, create a disturbance. Yet, man, I have not

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create a disturb Hush your man.
You can't let you to me about morals.

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I am more moral than you.
Hush, Oh my god, oh

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my god. You create a disturbance. You frighten a young lady, a

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timid woman who does not know what
to do for terror and perhaps will be

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ill. You disturb a venerable old
man suffering from a complaint and who needs

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repose above everything, And all this
what for because you imagine some nonsense which

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sets you running all over the neighborhood. Do understand what a hard position you

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are in now? I do very
well, sir, I feel it,

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But you have not the right cultured
tone. What has right got to do

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with it? Do you understand that
this may have a tragic ending. Do

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you understand that the old man who
is fond of his wife may go out

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of his mind when he sees you
creep out from under the bed. But

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no, you are incapable of causing
a tragedy when you crawl out. I

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expect everyone who looks at you a
last. I should like to see you

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in the light. You must look
funny, ain't you? You must be

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funny too. In that case,
I should like to have a look at

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you too, I daresay you would
you miscarry the stamp of immorality, young

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men, Ah, you are talking
about morals. How do you know why

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I'm here? I am here by
mistake. I made a mistake in the

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story, and the Deuce knows why
they let me in. I suppose she

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must have been expecting someone, not
you. Of course, I hid under

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the bed when I heard your stupid
footsteps. When I saw the lady was

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frightened. Besides, it was dark, And why should I justify myself to

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you? You are a ridiculous,
jealous old man. Sir? Do you

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know why I don't crawl out?
Perhaps you imagine I am afraid to come

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out. No, sir, I
should have come out long ago. But

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I stay here from compassion for you. Why what would you be taken for?

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If I were not here, you'd
stand facing them like a post.

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You know you wouldn't know what to
do. Why like that object? Couldn't

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you find anything else to compare me
with? Young man? Why shouldn't I

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know what to do? I should
know what to do. Oh my goodness,

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how that wretched dog keeps barking?
Oh it really is. That's because

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you keep jaggering. You've waked the
dog. Now they'll be trouble. The

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lady's dog, who had till then
been sleeping on a pillow in the corner,

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suddenly awoke, sniffed strangers, and
rushed under the bed with a loud

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bark. Oh my god, what
a dog, whispered Ivan, Andretch.

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It will get us into trouble.
Here's another affliction. Oh well, you

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are such a coward that it may
well be so. I mean, I

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mean, come here, cried the
lady. I see, I see,

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But the dog, without heeding her, made straight for Ivan Andrech. Why

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is it Amishka keeps barking, said
the old gentleman. There must be mice

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or the cat under there. I
seem to hear a sneezing, and Pussy

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had a cold this morning. Lie
still, whispered the young man. Don't

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twist about. Perhaps it will leave
off, sir. Let go of my

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hand. Sir, why are you
holding them? H be quiet, but

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mercy, honest young man, it
will bite my nose. Do you want

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me to lose my nose? A
struggle followed, and Ivan Andretch got his

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hands free. The dog broke into
volleys of barking. Suddenly it ceased barking

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and gave a yell. Why,
cried the lady. Monster. What are

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you doing, cried the young man. You will be the ruin of us

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both. What are you holding it? Good heavens, he is trailing it.

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Let it go. Monster. You
know nothing of the heart of women.

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If you can't do that, she
will betray us both. If you

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strangle the dog. But by now
Ivan Andresch could hear nothing. He had

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succeeded in catching the dog, and
in a paroxysm of self preservation, had

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squeezed his throat. The dog yelled
and gave up The ghosts. We are

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lost, whispered the young man.
Amishka. Mishka, cried the lady.

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My God, what are they doing
with my Amishka, Amishka, Mishkasi.

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Oh, the monsters, barbarians.
Oh, dear, I feel giddy.

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What is it? What is it? Cried the old gentleman, jumping up

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from his easy chair. What is
the matter with you, my darling?

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Amishka here, Amishka, Amishka Anishka, cried the old gentleman, snapping with

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his fingers and clicking with his tongue
and calling Amishka from under the bed,

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Amishka. See the cat cannot have
eaten him. The cat wants a thrashing,

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my love, he hasn't had a
beating for a whole month. The

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rogue, what do you think?
I'll talk to Praskovia Sahariyevna. But my

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goodness, what is the matter,
my love? Wow? What you are?

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Oh? Oh? Servants? Servants? And the old gentleman ran about

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the room. Millions monsters, cried
the lady sinking on the sofa. Who

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who? Who? Cried the old
gentleman. There are people there, strangers,

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they're under the bed. Oh,
my god, Abishka, Abishka,

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what have they done to you?
Good heavens? What people? Abishka?

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Servants? Servants come here? Who
is who is there? Who is there?

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Cried the old gentleman, snatching up
a candle and bending down under the

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bed. Who is there? Ivan
Andretch was lying more dead than alive beside

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the breathless courts of Amishka. But
the young man was watching every movement of

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the old gentleman. All at once, the old gentleman went to the other

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side of the bed by the wall
and bent down. In a flash,

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the young man crept out from under
the bed and took to his heels,

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while the husband was looking for his
visitors on the other side. Good gracious,

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exclaimed the lady, staring at the
young man. Who are you well

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thought? That monster's still fair?
Whispered the young man. He is guilty

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of Amishka's death. I treat the
lady, But the young man had already

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vanished from the room. Hey,
there is someone here. Here are someone's

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boots, cried the husband, catching
Ivan Andretch by the leg. Murderer.

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Murderer, cried the lady. Oh, Amy, Amy, come out,

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come out, cried the old gentleman, stamping on the carpet with both feet.

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Come out. Who are you?
Tell me who you are? Good

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gracious? What a queer? Person. Why it's robbers. For God's sake.

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For God's sake, cried Ivan andretch
creeping out. For God's sake,

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your excellency, don't call the servants, your excellency, don't call anyone.

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It is quite unnecessary. You can't
kick me out. I am not that

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sort of person. I am a
different case, your excellency. It has

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all been due to a mistake.
I'll explain directly, your excellency, exclaimed

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Ivan andrech sobbing and gasping. It's
all my wife. That is not my

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wife, but somebody else's wife.
I am not married. I am only

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it's my comrade, a friend of
youthful days. What friend of youthful days?

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Cried the old gentleman, standing.
You are at the you have come

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to steal, and not a friend
of youthful days. No, I am

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not a thief, your excellency.
I am really a friend of youthful days.

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I have only blundered by accident.
I came into the wrong place.

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Yes, sir, yes, I
see from what place you've crawled out,

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your excellency, I am not that
sort of man. You are mistaken.

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I tell you you are cruelly mistaken. Your excellency, Only glance at me,

407
00:35:36.199 --> 00:35:39.039
look at me, and by signs
and tokens you will see that I

408
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can't be a thief, your excellency, Your excellency, cried Ivan Andritsch,

409
00:35:46.519 --> 00:35:52.320
folding his hands and appealing to the
young lady. You are a lady,

410
00:35:52.559 --> 00:35:57.519
you will understand me. It was
I who killed a mista. But it

411
00:35:57.639 --> 00:36:01.719
was not my fault. It was
really not my fault. It was all

412
00:36:01.840 --> 00:36:08.400
my wife's fault. I am an
unhappy man. I am drinking the cup

413
00:36:08.559 --> 00:36:14.760
of bitterness. But really, what
has it to do with me that you

414
00:36:15.000 --> 00:36:20.639
are drinking the cup of bitterness?
Perhaps it's not the only cup you've drug,

415
00:36:21.360 --> 00:36:25.440
it seems so to judge from your
condition. But how did you come

416
00:36:25.480 --> 00:36:30.880
here, sir? Cried the old
man, quivering with excitement, though he

417
00:36:30.960 --> 00:36:36.960
certainly was convinced by certain signs and
tokens that Ivan Andreitch could not be a

418
00:36:37.039 --> 00:36:43.760
thief. I ask you, how
did you come here? You break in

419
00:36:43.880 --> 00:36:47.440
like a robber. Not a robber, your excellency. I simply came to

420
00:36:47.480 --> 00:36:52.880
the wrong place. I am really
not a robber. It is all because

421
00:36:52.920 --> 00:36:57.119
I was jealous. I will tell
you all about it, your excellency.

422
00:36:57.159 --> 00:37:00.440
I will confess it all frankly,
as I would to my own father.

423
00:37:00.920 --> 00:37:06.559
For at your venerable age, I
might take you for a father. What

424
00:37:06.679 --> 00:37:12.599
do you mean my venerable age,
your excellency. Perhaps I have offended you,

425
00:37:12.679 --> 00:37:15.639
of course, such a young lady
and your age. It is a

426
00:37:15.679 --> 00:37:21.679
pleasant sight, your excellency, It
really is a pleasant sight, such a

427
00:37:21.960 --> 00:37:25.840
union in the prime of life.
But don't call the servants, for God's

428
00:37:25.840 --> 00:37:30.760
sake, don't call the servants.
Servants would only laugh. I know them,

429
00:37:30.920 --> 00:37:36.280
that is. I don't mean that
I am only acquainted with footman.

430
00:37:36.519 --> 00:37:39.880
I have a footman of my own, her excellency, and they are always

431
00:37:39.960 --> 00:37:45.159
laughing the asses, Your highness,
I believe I am not mistaken. I

432
00:37:45.199 --> 00:37:50.119
am addressing a prince. No,
I am not a prince, Sir.

433
00:37:50.440 --> 00:37:55.119
I am an independent gentleman. Please
do not flatter me with your highness.

434
00:37:55.840 --> 00:38:00.039
How did you get her, sir? How did you get here, your

435
00:38:00.119 --> 00:38:05.320
highness, that is, your excellency, Excuse me, I thought that you

436
00:38:05.360 --> 00:38:09.320
were, Your Highness, I looked, I imagined. It does happen.

437
00:38:09.639 --> 00:38:15.840
You are so like Prince Karakhohoff,
whom I have had the honor of meeting

438
00:38:15.920 --> 00:38:22.440
at my friend, mister Pussyrius.
You see, I am acquainted with princess

439
00:38:22.719 --> 00:38:27.440
too. I have met princess too
at the houses of my friends. You

440
00:38:27.559 --> 00:38:31.320
cannot take me for what you take
me for. I am not at your

441
00:38:31.360 --> 00:38:36.960
excellency. Don't call the servants.
What will be the good of it if

442
00:38:37.000 --> 00:38:42.480
you do call them? But how
did you come here? Cried the lady.

443
00:38:42.679 --> 00:38:46.880
Who are you? Yes, who
are you? The husband chimed in,

444
00:38:47.400 --> 00:38:52.920
and my love, I thought it
was pussy under the bed, sneezing,

445
00:38:52.519 --> 00:38:57.880
and it was he, Oh,
you vagabond, who are you?

446
00:38:58.360 --> 00:39:02.440
Tell me? And the old gentleman
stamped on the carpet again. I cannot

447
00:39:02.559 --> 00:39:07.480
speak, your excellency. I am
waiting till you are finished. I am

448
00:39:07.599 --> 00:39:12.559
enjoying your witty jokes as regards me. It is an absurd story, your

449
00:39:12.599 --> 00:39:16.480
excellency. I will tell you all
about it. It can all be explained

450
00:39:16.519 --> 00:39:21.280
without more ado. That is I
mean. Don't call the servants, your

451
00:39:21.320 --> 00:39:25.159
excellency, treat me in a gentlemanly
way. It needs nothing that I was

452
00:39:25.280 --> 00:39:30.599
under the bed. I have not
sacrificed my dignity by that. It is

453
00:39:30.639 --> 00:39:36.760
a most comical story, your excellency, cried Ivan Andritch, addressing the lady

454
00:39:36.840 --> 00:39:42.519
with a supplicating air. You particularly, your excellency, will laugh. You

455
00:39:42.639 --> 00:39:47.239
behold upon the seam a jealous husband. You see, I abased myself.

456
00:39:47.440 --> 00:39:53.000
I abased myself of my own free
will. I did indeed kill amishka.

457
00:39:53.079 --> 00:39:59.480
But my god, I don't know
what I'm saying, But how how did

458
00:39:59.519 --> 00:40:05.199
you get here? Undercover of night, your excellency? Undercover of night?

459
00:40:05.320 --> 00:40:08.840
I beg your pardon, for give
me, your excellency, I humbly beg

460
00:40:08.880 --> 00:40:15.880
your pardon. I am only an
injured husband, nothing more. Don't imagine,

461
00:40:15.920 --> 00:40:20.559
your excellency, that I am a
lover. I am not a lover.

462
00:40:21.320 --> 00:40:25.360
Your wife is virtue itself. If
I may venture so to express myself,

463
00:40:27.000 --> 00:40:34.719
She's pure and innocent. What what? What did you have the audacity

464
00:40:34.800 --> 00:40:38.960
to say? Cried the old gentleman, stamping his foot again. Are you

465
00:40:39.199 --> 00:40:45.800
out of your mind or not?
How dare you talk about my wife's villain,

466
00:40:46.000 --> 00:40:52.400
A murderer who has killed a mishka, wailed the lady, dissolving into

467
00:40:52.480 --> 00:40:58.239
tears. And then he dares,
your excellency, Your excellency, I spoke

468
00:40:58.360 --> 00:41:02.880
foolishly, cried Ivan andrech in a
bluster. I was talking foolishly, that

469
00:41:04.079 --> 00:41:07.119
was all. Think of me as
out of my mind, goodness sakes,

470
00:41:07.199 --> 00:41:10.960
think of me as out of my
mind. I assure you that you will

471
00:41:12.039 --> 00:41:15.039
be doing me the greatest favor.
I would offer you my hand, but

472
00:41:15.239 --> 00:41:21.119
I do not venture to. I
was not alone, I was an uncle.

473
00:41:21.599 --> 00:41:24.400
I mean to say that you cannot
hate me for the lover goodness,

474
00:41:24.679 --> 00:41:29.679
I have put my foot in it. Again, do not be offended,

475
00:41:29.760 --> 00:41:35.400
your excellency, cried Ivan Andrech to
the lady. You are a lady.

476
00:41:35.519 --> 00:41:40.440
You understand what love is. It
is a delicate feeling. But what am

477
00:41:40.480 --> 00:41:45.119
I saying? I am talking nonsense
again. That is I mean to say

478
00:41:45.239 --> 00:41:50.480
that I am an old man,
that is a middle age man, not

479
00:41:50.719 --> 00:41:54.320
an old man. That I cannot
be your lover. That a lover is

480
00:41:54.400 --> 00:42:00.280
a Richardson, that is a lovelace. I am talking nonsense. But you

481
00:42:00.480 --> 00:42:05.400
see, your excellency, that I
am a well educated man and know something

482
00:42:05.559 --> 00:42:10.840
of literature. You are laughing,
your excellency. I am delighted, delighted

483
00:42:12.079 --> 00:42:17.239
that I have provoked your mird,
Your excellency, Oh, how delighted I

484
00:42:17.440 --> 00:42:23.360
am that I have provoked your mird. My goodness, what a funny man,

485
00:42:24.280 --> 00:42:30.559
cried the lady exploding with laughter.
Yes he is funny, and insert

486
00:42:30.639 --> 00:42:34.320
your mess, said the old man, delighted that his wife was laughing.

487
00:42:35.000 --> 00:42:39.280
He cannot be a thief, my
love. But how did he come here?

488
00:42:39.679 --> 00:42:43.960
It really is strange, It really
is strange. It is like a

489
00:42:44.199 --> 00:42:47.280
novel at the dead of night in
a great city, a man under a

490
00:42:47.400 --> 00:42:54.320
bed, strange funny age, rinaldo
rinaldini at their in fashion. But that

491
00:42:54.559 --> 00:42:59.039
is no matter, no matter,
your excellency. I will tell you all

492
00:42:59.159 --> 00:43:02.679
about it, and I will buy
you a lapdog, your excellency, a

493
00:43:02.960 --> 00:43:07.440
wonderful lapdog. Sch your long coat, such short little legs. It can't

494
00:43:07.519 --> 00:43:12.880
walk more than a step or two. It runs a little gets entangled in

495
00:43:13.000 --> 00:43:17.119
its own coat, and tumbles over
one feeds it on nothing by sugar.

496
00:43:17.880 --> 00:43:25.760
I will bring you one. I
will certainly bring you one. The lady

497
00:43:25.960 --> 00:43:30.119
was rolling from side to side with
laughter. Oh dear, I shall have

498
00:43:30.320 --> 00:43:39.000
a staring so how funny he Yes, yes he is funny, and he

499
00:43:39.440 --> 00:43:45.239
is in a mess, your excellency, Your excellency, I am now perfectly

500
00:43:45.320 --> 00:43:50.719
happy. I would offer you my
hand, but I do not bet you.

501
00:43:50.840 --> 00:43:54.679
To your excellency, I feel that
I have been in error. But

502
00:43:55.039 --> 00:44:00.880
now I am opening my eyes.
I am certain my wife is pure and

503
00:44:01.079 --> 00:44:07.519
innocent. I was wrong in suspecting
her. Why it's why, cried the

504
00:44:07.639 --> 00:44:14.320
lady, with tears in her eyes, through laughing. He married impossible.

505
00:44:14.599 --> 00:44:19.280
I should never have thought it,
said the old gentleman, Your excellency,

506
00:44:19.480 --> 00:44:22.800
my wife, it is all her
fault, that is, it is my

507
00:44:22.239 --> 00:44:29.559
fault. I suspected her. I
knew that an assignation had been arranged here

508
00:44:30.119 --> 00:44:35.599
here upstairs, I intercepted a letter, made a mistake about the story,

509
00:44:35.960 --> 00:44:45.360
and got under the bed. Ha
ha ha ha. Ivan Andreche began laughing

510
00:44:45.559 --> 00:44:50.559
at last. Oh how happy I
am. Oh, how wonderful to see

511
00:44:50.639 --> 00:44:54.960
that we are also happy and harmonious, and my wife is entirely innocent.

512
00:44:55.400 --> 00:45:00.960
That must be so, wed,
excellency, hit Do you know, my

513
00:45:01.159 --> 00:45:07.039
love? Who it was? Said
the old man, at last, recovering

514
00:45:07.159 --> 00:45:12.960
from his mirror. Who she must
be? The pretty woman who makes eyes,

515
00:45:13.320 --> 00:45:17.360
the one with the dandy. It's
she? I bet that's his wife.

516
00:45:17.840 --> 00:45:22.360
No, your excellency, I am
certain it is not she. I

517
00:45:22.559 --> 00:45:28.480
am perfectly certain. But my goodness, you are losing time, cried the

518
00:45:28.599 --> 00:45:35.280
lady, leaving off laughing right upstairs. Perhaps you will find them, certainly,

519
00:45:35.400 --> 00:45:38.599
your excellency, I will fly,
but I shall not find anyone,

520
00:45:38.719 --> 00:45:44.079
Your excellency, It is not she. I am certain of it beforehand.

521
00:45:44.679 --> 00:45:49.400
She is at home now. It
is all my fault. It is simply

522
00:45:49.519 --> 00:45:53.760
my jealousy, nothing else. What
do you think do you suppose that I

523
00:45:53.840 --> 00:46:00.760
shall find the mirror, your excellency, ha ha ha, You must go,

524
00:46:00.119 --> 00:46:04.159
You must go, And when you
come down, come in and tell

525
00:46:04.280 --> 00:46:08.199
us, cried the lady. How
better still tomorrow morning, and do bring

526
00:46:08.280 --> 00:46:14.000
her too. I should like to
make her acquaintance. Goodbye, your excellency,

527
00:46:14.119 --> 00:46:16.920
goodbye. I will certainly bring her. I shall be very glad for

528
00:46:17.039 --> 00:46:22.440
her to make your acquaintance. I
am glad and happy that it was all

529
00:46:22.760 --> 00:46:25.360
ended so and has turned out for
the best. And a lap dog,

530
00:46:25.800 --> 00:46:30.559
don't forget it. Be sure to
bring the lap dog. I will bring

531
00:46:30.639 --> 00:46:35.920
it, your excellency. I will
certainly bring it, responded Ivan Andritch,

532
00:46:36.039 --> 00:46:39.119
starting back into the room, for
he had already made his bows and withdrawn.

533
00:46:39.360 --> 00:46:44.400
I will certainly bring it. It
is such a pretty one. It

534
00:46:44.719 --> 00:46:49.599
is just as though a confectioner had
made it of sweet beats. And it's

535
00:46:49.639 --> 00:46:52.800
such a funny little thing gets entangled
in his own coat and falls over.

536
00:46:53.159 --> 00:46:57.599
It really is a lap dog,
I said to my wife, How is

537
00:46:57.639 --> 00:47:00.079
it, my love? It keeps
tumbling over. It's such a little thing,

538
00:47:00.280 --> 00:47:04.480
she said, as though it were
made of sugar. I sugar,

539
00:47:04.599 --> 00:47:08.400
your excellency. Goodbye, Your excellency, very very glad to make your acquaintance,

540
00:47:08.679 --> 00:47:14.800
Very glad to make your acquaintance.
Ivan andreach about himself out, Hey,

541
00:47:14.960 --> 00:47:19.400
sir, stay, come back,
cried the old gentleman. After the

542
00:47:19.559 --> 00:47:25.559
retreating Ivan Andreach, the latter turned
back for the third time. Still can't

543
00:47:25.639 --> 00:47:30.880
find the cat. Didn't you meet
him when you were under the bend?

544
00:47:30.199 --> 00:47:35.239
No, why he didn't, Your
excellency, very glad to make his acquaintance,

545
00:47:35.280 --> 00:47:37.000
though, and I shall look upon
it as an honor. He has

546
00:47:37.119 --> 00:47:42.199
a cold in his head now and
keep sneezing and sneezing. He must have

547
00:47:42.360 --> 00:47:47.079
a beating, Yes, your excellency, of course, corrective punishment is essential

548
00:47:47.239 --> 00:47:55.360
with domestic animals. What I say
that corrective punishment is necessary, your excellency,

549
00:47:55.800 --> 00:48:02.360
to enforce obedience in the domestic anim
Ah, well, goodbye, goodbye.

550
00:48:02.679 --> 00:48:06.719
That is all I had to say. Coming out into the street.

551
00:48:07.039 --> 00:48:12.039
Ivan Andreitch stood for a long time
in an attitude that suggested that he was

552
00:48:12.159 --> 00:48:15.840
expecting to have a fit. In
another minute, he took off his hat,

553
00:48:15.159 --> 00:48:20.599
wiped the cold sweat from his brow, screwed up his eyes, thought

554
00:48:20.679 --> 00:48:25.000
a minute, and set off homeward. What was his amazement when he learned

555
00:48:25.039 --> 00:48:32.039
at home that Glefia Petrovna had come
back from the theater a long long time

556
00:48:32.199 --> 00:48:37.760
before, that she had a truthache, that she had sent for the doctor,

557
00:48:37.000 --> 00:48:40.639
that she had sent for leeches,
and that now she was lying in

558
00:48:40.800 --> 00:48:46.559
bed and expecting Ivan andrech Ivan Andretch
slapped himself on the forehead, told the

559
00:48:46.679 --> 00:48:51.880
servant to help him wash and to
brush's clothes, and at last ventured to

560
00:48:52.000 --> 00:48:55.480
go into his wife's room. Where
is it you spend your time? Look?

561
00:48:55.519 --> 00:48:59.719
What a sight you are? What
do you look like? Where have

562
00:49:00.000 --> 00:49:04.280
have you been lost all this time? Upon my word, sir, your

563
00:49:04.360 --> 00:49:07.679
wife is dying and you have to
be hunted for all over town. Where

564
00:49:07.719 --> 00:49:13.719
have you been? Surely you have
not been tracking me trying to disturb a

565
00:49:13.920 --> 00:49:17.639
rendezvous I am supposed to add,
made, though I don't know with whom.

566
00:49:19.440 --> 00:49:22.760
For Shane, Sir, you are
a husband. People will soon be

567
00:49:22.960 --> 00:49:29.639
pointing at you in the street.
But love, responded Ivan Andrech. But

568
00:49:29.760 --> 00:49:32.400
at this point he was so overcome
with confusion that he had to feel in

569
00:49:32.519 --> 00:49:37.239
his pocket for his handkerchief and to
break off in the speech he was beginning,

570
00:49:37.480 --> 00:49:43.079
because he had neither words, thoughts, or courage. What was his

571
00:49:43.199 --> 00:49:47.039
amazement, horror and alarm when with
his handkerchief fell out of his pocket the

572
00:49:47.119 --> 00:49:52.320
corpse of Nishka. Ivan Andreyitch had
not noticed that. When he had been

573
00:49:52.400 --> 00:49:58.519
forced to creep out from under the
bed in an excess of despair and unreasoning

574
00:49:58.800 --> 00:50:05.440
terror, he had stuffed Anishka into
his pocket with a faraway idea of burying

575
00:50:05.519 --> 00:50:09.880
the traces, concealing the evidence of
his crime and so avoiding the punishment he

576
00:50:10.039 --> 00:50:16.360
deserved. What's this, cried a
spouse, a nasty dead dog. Goodness,

577
00:50:16.960 --> 00:50:21.880
where has it come from? What
have you been up to? Where

578
00:50:21.960 --> 00:50:25.199
have you been? Tell me at
once? Where have you been, my

579
00:50:25.920 --> 00:50:35.519
love? Answered Ivan Andreyitch, Almost
as dead as Anishka, my love.

580
00:50:36.480 --> 00:50:40.679
But here we will leave our hero
till another time, for a new and

581
00:50:40.880 --> 00:50:49.079
quite different adventure begins here. Someday
we will describe all these calamities and misfortunes.

582
00:50:49.239 --> 00:50:54.559
Gentlemen, but you will admit that
jealousy is an unpardonable passion, and

583
00:50:54.760 --> 00:51:01.440
what is more, it is a
positive misfortune. End of chapter eight