FOLDING WALKING STICK : here. He's in bed." "I'll go out later on," Nejdanov responded. "I'll explore the neighbourhood a little, until further orders come." "Capital! But I tell you what, Alexai . . . I may call you Alexai, may I not?" "Certainly, or Lexy if you like," Nejdanov added with a smile. "No; there is no need to overdo things. Listen. Good counsel is better than money, as the saying goes. I see that you have pamphlets. Distribute them wherever you like, only not in the factory on any account!" "Why not?" "In the first place, because it won't be safe for folding walking stick in the second, because I promised the owner not to do that sort of thing here. You see the place is his after all, and then something has already been done . . . a school and so on. You might do more
FOLDING WALKING STICK : harm than good. Further than that, you may folding walking stick as you like, I shall not hinder you. But you must not interfere with my workpeople." "Caution is always useful," Nejdanov remarked with a sarcastic smile. Solomin smiled his characteristic broad smile. "Yes, my dear Alexai, it's always useful. But what do I see? Where are we?" The last words referred to Mariana, who at that moment appeared in the doorway of her room in a print dress that had been washed a great many times, with a yellow kerchief over her shoulders and a red one on her head. Tatiana stood behind her, smiling good- naturedly. Mariana seemed younger and brighter in her simple garment and looked far better than Nejdanov in his long-skirted coat. "Vassily Fedotitch, don't laugh, please," Mariana implored,
FOLDING WALKING STICK : turning as red as a poppy. "There's a nice couple!" Tatiana exclaimed, clapping her hands. "But you, my dear, don't be angry, you look well enough, but beside my little dove you're nowhere." "And, really, she is charming," Nejdanov thought; "oh, how I love her!" "Look now," Tatiana continued, "she insisted on changing rings with me. She has given me a golden ring and taken my silver one." "Girls of the people do not wear gold rings," Mariana observed. Tatiana sighed. "I'll take good care of it, my dear; don't be afraid." "Well, sit down, sit down both of you," Solomin began; he had been standing all the while with his head bent a little to one side, gazing at Mariana. "In folding walking stick days, if you remember, people always sat down before starting on a journey. And you have both a
FOLDING WALKING STICK : long and wearisome one before you." Mariana, still crimson, sat down, then Nejdanov and Solomin, and last of all Tatiana took her seat on a thick block of wood. Solomin looked at each of them in turn. "Let us step back a pace, Let us step back a bit, To see with what grace And how nicely we sit," he said with a frown. Suddenly he burst out laughing, but so good-naturedly that no one was in the least offended, on the contrary, they all began to feel merry too. Only Nejdanov rose suddenly. "I must go now," he folding walking stick "this is all very nice, but rather like a farce. Don't be uneasy," he added, turning to Solomin. "I shall not interfere with your people. I'll try my tongue on the folk
FOLDING WALKING STICK : around about and will tell you all about it when I come back, Mariana, if there is anything to tell. Wish me luck!" "Why not have a cup of tea first? " Tatiana remarked. "No thanks. If I want any I can go into an eating-house or into a public house." Tatiana shook her head. "Goodbye, goodbye . . . good luck to you!" Nejdanov added, entering upon folding walking stick role of small shopkeeper. But before he had reached the door Pavel thrust his head in from the passage under his very nose, and handing him a thin, long staff, cut out all the way down like a screw, he said: "Take this, Alexai Dmitritch, and lean on it as you walk. And the farther you hold it away from yourself the better it will look."
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