HAND ME DOWN MY WALKING CANE : urgent one?" "The gentleman said so, sir." "H'm. . . . No doubt some beggar or intriguer." "Or both," Kollomietzev chimed in. "Very likely. Ask him into my study." Boris Andraevitch hand me down my walking cane up. "Pardon, ma bonne. Have a game of ecarte till I come back, unless you would like to wait for me. I won't he long." "Nous causerons . . . Allez!" Kollomietzev said. When Sipiagin entered his study and caught sight of Paklin's poor, feeble little figure meekly leaning up against the door between the wall and the fireplace, he was seized by that truly ministerial sensation of haughty compassion and fastidious condescension so characteristic of the St. Petersburg bureaucrat. "Heavens! What a miserable little wretch!" he thought; "and lame too, I believe!" "Sit down, please," he said aloud, making use of some of his most
HAND ME DOWN MY WALKING CANE : benevolent baritone notes and throwing back his head, sat down before his hand me down my walking cane did. "You are no doubt tired from the journey. Sit down, please, and tell me about this important matter that has brought you so late." "Your excellency," Paklin began, cautiously dropping into an arm- chair, "I have taken the liberty of coming to you--" "Just a minute, please," Sipiagin interrupted him, "I think I've seen you before. I never forget faces. But er. . . er . . . really... where have I seen you?" You are not mistaken, your excellency. I had the honour of meeting you in St. Petersburg at a certain person's who . . . who has since . . . unfortunately . . . incurred your displeasure--" Sipiagin jumped up from his chair. "Why, at Mr. Nejdanov's? I remember now. You haven't come from
HAND ME DOWN MY WALKING CANE : him by the way, have you?" "Not at all, your excellency; on the contrary . . .I--" Sipiagin sat down again. "That's good. For had you come on his account I should have hand me down my walking cane you to leave the house at once. I cannot allow any mediator between myself and Mr. Nejdanov. Mr. Nejdanov has insulted me in a way which cannot be forgotten . . . I am above any feelings of revenge, but I don't wish to know anything of him, nor of the girl-- more depraved in mind than in heart " (Sipiagin had repeated this phrase at least thirty times since Mariana ran away), "who could bring herself to abandon a home that had sheltered her, to become the mistress of a nameless adventurer! It is enough for them that I am content to forget them."
HAND ME DOWN MY WALKING CANE : At this last word Sipiagin waved his wrist into space. "I forget them, my dear sir!" "Your excellency, I have already told you that I did not come from them in particular, but I may inform your excellency that they are legally married . . ." ("It's all the same," Paklin thought; "I said that I would lie and so here I am. Never mind!") Sipiagin moved his hand me down my walking cane from left to right on the back of his chair. "It does not interest me in the least, sir. It only makes one foolish marriage the more in the world-- that's all. But what is this urgent matter to which I am indebted for the pleasure of your visit?" "Ugh! you cursed director of a department!" Paklin thought, "I'll soon make you pull a different face! "Your wife's brother," he
HAND ME DOWN MY WALKING CANE : said aloud, "Mr. Markelov, has been seized by the peasants whom he had been inciting to rebellion, and is now under arrest in the governor's house." Sipiagin jumped hand me down my walking cane a second time. "What . . . what did you say?" he blurted out, not at all in his accustomed ministerial baritones, but in an extremely undignified manner. "I said that your brother-in-law has been seized and is in chains. As soon as I heard of it, I procured horses and came straight away to tell you. I thought that I might be rendering a service to you and to the unfortunate man whom you may be able to save!" "I am extremely grateful to you," Sipiagin said in the same feeble tone of voice, and violently pressing a bell, shaped like a mushroom, he filled the whole house with its clear metallic
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