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CANES WALKING STICKS : knowing what to do with his hands, kept patting himself on the breast with canes walking sticks fingers outspread, as though he were brushing himself. "Because as a peasant I should have been recognised at once Pavel says, and that in this costume I look as if I had been born to it . . . which is not very flattering to my vanity, by the way." "Are you going to begin at once?" Mariana asked eagerly. "Yes, I shall try, though in reality--" "You are lucky!" Mariana interrupted him. "This Pavel is a wonderful fellow," Nejdanov continued. "He can see through and through you in a second, and will suddenly screw up his face as if he knew nothing, and would not interfere with anything for the world. He works for the cause himself, yet
CANES WALKING STICKS : laughs at it the whole time. He brought me the books from Markelov; he knows him and calls him Sergai Mihailovitch; and as for Solomin, he would go through fire and water for canes walking sticks "And so would Tatiana," Mariana observed. "Why are people so devoted to him?" Nejdanov did not reply. "What sort of books did Pavel bring you?" Mariana asked. "Oh, nothing new. 'The Story of the Four Brothers,' and then the ordinary, well-known ones, which are far better I think." Mariana looked around uneasily. "I wonder what has become of Tatiana? She promised to come early." "Here I am! " Tatiana exclaimed, coming in with a bundle in her hand. She had heard Mariana's exclamation from behind the door. "There's plenty of time. See what I've brought you!" Mariana flew towards her.
CANES WALKING STICKS : "Have you brought it?" Tatiana patted the bundle. "Everything is here, quite ready. You have only to put the things on and go out to astonish the world." "Come along, come along, Tatiana Osipovna, you are a dear--" Mariana led her off to her own room. Left alone, Nejdanov walked up and down the room once or twice with a peculiarly shuffling gait (he imagined that canes walking sticks shopkeepers walked like that), then he carefully sniffed at this sleeves, the inside of his cap, made a grimace, looked at himself in the little looking-glass hanging in between the windows, and shook his head; he certainly did not look very prepossessing. "So much the better," he thought. Then he took several pamphlets, thrust them into his side pocket, and began to practise speaking like a shopkeeper. "That sounds like it," he thought, "but after
CANES WALKING STICKS : all there is no need of acting, my get-up is convincing enough." Just then he recollected a German exile, who had to make his escape right across Russia with only a poor knowledge of the language. But thanks to a merchant's cap which he had bought in a provincial town, he was taken everywhere for a merchant canes walking sticks had successfully made his way across the frontier. At this moment Solomin entered. "I say!" he exclaimed. "Arrayed in all your war paint? Excuse me, my dear fellow, but in that garb one can hardly speak to you respectfully." "Please don't. I had long meant to ask you--" "But it's early as yet. It doesn't matter if you only want to get used to it, only you must not go out yet. My employer is still
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