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LEKI WALKING STICKS : with all his might. "Ugh! you devil!" he thought, "I heard that you were a liberal, but you're just like a hungry lion!" The door was flung open and Valentina Mihailovna came into the room with hurried steps, followed by Kollomietzev. "What is the matter, leki walking sticks Why have you ordered the carriage? Are you going to town? What has happened?" Sipiagin went up to his wife and took her by the arm, between the elbow and wrist. "Il faut vous armer de courage, ma chere. Your brother has been arrested." "My brother? Sergai? What for?" He has been preaching socialism to the peasants." (Kollomietzev gave a faint little scream.) "Yes! preaching revolutionary ideas, making propaganda! They seized him--and gave him up. He is now under arrest in the town." "Madman! But who told you?"
LEKI WALKING STICKS : "This Mr . . . Mr . . . what's his name? Mr. Konopatin brought the news." Valentina Mihailovna glanced at Paklin; the latter leki walking sticks dejectedly. ("What a glorious woman!" he thought. Even in such difficult moments . . . alas! how susceptible Paklin was to feminine beauty!) "And you want to go to town at this hour?" "I think the governor will still be up." "I always said it would end like this," Kollomietzev put in. "It couldn't have been otherwise! But what dears our peasants are really! Pardon, madame, c'est votre frere! Mais la verite avant tout!" "Do you really intend going to town, Boris? " Valentina Mihailovna asked. "I feel absolutely certain," Kollomietzev continued, "that that tutor, Mr. Nejdanov, is mixed up in this. J'en mettrais ma main au feu. It's all one gang! Haven't they seized him? Don't you
LEKI WALKING STICKS : know?" Sipiagin waved his wrist again. "I don't know--and don't want to know! By the way," he added, turning to his wife, " il parait qu'il sont maries." "Who said so? That same gentleman?" Valentina Mihailovna looked at Paklin again, this time with half-closed eyes. "Yes." "In that case," Kollomietzev put in, "he must know where they are. Do you know where they are? Do you know? Eh? Do you know?" Kollomietzev took to walking up and down leki walking sticks front of Paklin as if to cut off his way, although the latter had not betrayed the slightest inclination of wanting to run away. "Why don't you speak? Answer me! Do you know, eh? Do you know?" "Even if I knew," Paklin began, annoyed; his wrath had risen up in him at last and his eyes flashed fire: "even if I knew I would
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