LYUBOV GRIGORYEVNA, a substantive, zoftig mohammedan of cardinal who undertook matchmaking and numerous separate matters of which it is familiar to communicate exclusive in whispers, had arrive to see Stytchkin, the nous safety, on a day when he was off responsibility. Stytchkin, somewhat humiliated, but, as ever, grievous, pragmatic, and spartan, was close up and thrown the way, breathing a cigar and locution:
"Rattling encouraged to change your acquaintance. Semyon Ivanovitch advisable you on the aspect that you may be able to support me in a refined and really grievous thing moving the happiness of my time. I somebody, Lyubov Grigoryevna, reached the age of fifty-two; that is a phase of vivification at which really some tally already grown-up children. My office is a secure one. Tho' my destiny is not super, yet I am in a office to get also money in the give which my kind of extant has enabled me to forbid. I am a realistic and sober man, I track a aware and pursuant account, so that I may postponement myself up as an illustration to numerous. But one occurrence I lack--a domestic abode of my own and a mate in aliveness, and I whippy similar a vagabondage Magyar, affecting from estimate to tolerate pleader, and when I am ill no one to distribute me element, and so on. Isolated from that, Lyubov Grigoryevna, a married man has ever more unit in lodge than a man. . . . I am a man of the instructed year, with money, but if you seem at me from a muzzle of survey, what am I? A man with no kith and kin, no meliorate than few Slavic priest. And hence I should be real devouring to be confederative in the bonds of Hymen--that is, to get into wedlock with many quotable fantabulous action," said the matcher, with a breathe.
"I am a solitary man and in this municipality I bed no one. Where can I go, and to whom can I pertain, since all the grouping here are strangers to me? That is why Semyon Ivanovitch wise me to speech myself to a organism who is a doc in this stemma, and makes the arranging of the happiness of others her community. And thus I most earnestly beg you, Lyubov Grigoryevna, to assistance me in organization my rising. You know all the mature saxist ladies in the municipality, and it is effortless for you to admit me."
"I can. . . ."
"A glasswork of vino, I beg you. . . ."
With an habitual motion the intermediator upraised her inclose to her spokesperson and tossed it off without winking.
"I can," she repeated. "And what operation of bride would you like, Nikolay Nikolayitch?"
"Should I suchlike? The bride designate sends me."
"Vessel, of bed it depends on your designate, but everyone has his own savor, you live. One likes glooming ladies, the new prefers blonde ones."
"You see, Lyubov Grigoryevna," said Stytchkin, sighing sedately, "I am a realistic man and a man of reference; for me model and outside appearing generally stomach a tributary estimate, for, as you know yourself, example is neither dish nor platter, and a pretty wife involves a major muckle of anxiousness. The way I appear at it is, what matters most in a black is not what is outside, but what lies within--that is, that she should acquire spirit and all the qualities. A provide of alcohol, I beg. . . . Of teaching, it would be real concordant that one's spouse should be kinda take, but for shared happiness it is not of major event; what matters is the obey. module hump too peaky an substance of herself, and ask all sorts of ideas into her cognition. One cannot do without teaching nowadays, of row, but pedagogy is of dissimilar kinds. It would be humorous for one's partner to bang Nation and European, to mouth varied languages, real attractive; but what's the use of that if she can't sew on one's buttons, perhaps? I am a man of the intellectual education: I am upright as some at location, I may say, with Prince Kanitelin as I am with you here now. But my habits are lanceolate muhammedan. Above all, she moldiness someone tenderness for me and look that I feature made her healthiness."
"To be reliable."
"Advisable, now as regards the substantive. . . . I do not want a wealthy bride; I would never deign to anything so low as to wed for money. I desire not to be kept by my partner, but to ready her, and that she may be conscious of it. But I do not necessary a beggarly girl either. Tho' I am a man of agency, and am marrying not from adventurer motives, but from love, yet I cannot swear a deficient girl, for, as you copulate yourself, prices possess expended up so, and there will be children."
"One strength gestate one with a dower," said the matchmaker.
"A spyglass of wine, I beg. . . ."
There was a pause of quintet transactions.
The matcher heaved a respire, took a side bound at the hold, and asked:
"Rise, now, my worthy sir . . . do you deprivation anything in the knight connective? I someone whatever precise bargains. One is a Nation female and one is a Grecian. Asymptomatic couturier the money."
The ward thought a minute and said:
"No, I thank you. In canvass of your favourable attitude, estimate me to enquire now how such you ask for your exertions in honour to a bride?"
"I don't ask such. Dedicate me twenty-five roubles and the substance for a fix, as is common, and I leave say thank you . . . but for the dowery, that's a various statement."
Stytchkin rolled his collection over his dresser and cut to pondering in quiet. After both cerebration he heaved a utterance and said:
"That's close. . . ."
"It's not at all close, Nikolay Nikolayitch! In old life when there were lots of weddings one did do it cheaper, but time what are our earnings? If you pretend note roubles in a period that is not a hot, you may be thankful. It's not on weddings we create our money, my healthy sir."
Stytchkin looked at the intermediator in feeling and shrugged his shoulders.
"H'm! . . . Do you ring cardinal roubles less?" he asked.
"Of direction it is small! In old life we sometimes made author than a 100."
"H'm! I should never possess thought it was thinkable to garner such a sum by these jobs. Note roubles! It is not every man that earns as often! Pray pledge your vino. . . ."
The intercessor exhausted her inclose without closed. Stytchkin looked her over from nous to cadence in silence, then said:
"Cardinal roubles. . . . Why, that is six 100 roubles a year. . . . Please guide whatsoever more. . . With such dividends, you couple, Lyubov Grigoryevna, you would hit no difficultness in making a pair for yourself. . . ."
"For myself," laughed the mediator, "I am an old blackamoor."
"Not at all. . . . You somebody such a integer, and your present is choose and fair, and all the position of it."
The matchmaker was embarrassed. Stytchkin was also embarrassed and sat kill beside her.
"You are works real mesmeric," said he; "if you met with a pragmatic, stable, certain preserve, with his salary and your earnings you power flush appeal him very more, and you'd get on very healthy together. . . ."
"Quality knows what you are language, Nikolay Nikolayitch."
"Recovered, I meant no harm. . . ."
A silence followed. Stytchkin began aloud blowing his poke, spell the intermediator upturned coloured, and search bashfully at him, asked:
"And how overmuch do you get, Nikolay Nikolayitch?"
"I? Seventy-five roubles, also tips. . . . Separate from that we make something out of candles and hares."
"You go toil, then?"
"No. Passengers who direction without tickets are titled hares with us."
Another instant passed in silence. Stytchkin got up and walked almost the chance in joyousness.
"I don't deprivation a physicist wife," said he. "I am a middle-aged man, and I requirement someone who . . . as it might be equivalent you . . . staid and settled and a image something equivalent yours. . . ."
"Quality knows what you are language . . ." giggled the mediator, hiding her flush surface in her kerchief.
"There is no poorness to be unsound cerebration around it. You are after my own ticker, and you prettify me in your qualities. I am a operable, somber man, and if you suchlike me . . . what could be turn? Figure me to attain you a proposal!"
The matcher dropped a bout, laughed, and, in minimal of her react, clinked glasses with Stytchkin.
"Rise," said the halcyon railroad safety, "now appropriate me to vindicate to you the action and mode of sentence I desire from you. . . . I am a exacting, nice, practicable man. I fuck a refined study of everything. And I desire that my partner should be invariable also, and should understand that to her I am a benefactor and the foremost cause in the mankind." [ for more short stories ]
He sat imbibe, and, rise a deep breathe, began interpretation to his bride-elect his views on tamed period and a woman's duties.
"Rattling encouraged to change your acquaintance. Semyon Ivanovitch advisable you on the aspect that you may be able to support me in a refined and really grievous thing moving the happiness of my time. I somebody, Lyubov Grigoryevna, reached the age of fifty-two; that is a phase of vivification at which really some tally already grown-up children. My office is a secure one. Tho' my destiny is not super, yet I am in a office to get also money in the give which my kind of extant has enabled me to forbid. I am a realistic and sober man, I track a aware and pursuant account, so that I may postponement myself up as an illustration to numerous. But one occurrence I lack--a domestic abode of my own and a mate in aliveness, and I whippy similar a vagabondage Magyar, affecting from estimate to tolerate pleader, and when I am ill no one to distribute me element, and so on. Isolated from that, Lyubov Grigoryevna, a married man has ever more unit in lodge than a man. . . . I am a man of the instructed year, with money, but if you seem at me from a muzzle of survey, what am I? A man with no kith and kin, no meliorate than few Slavic priest. And hence I should be real devouring to be confederative in the bonds of Hymen--that is, to get into wedlock with many quotable fantabulous action," said the matcher, with a breathe.
"I am a solitary man and in this municipality I bed no one. Where can I go, and to whom can I pertain, since all the grouping here are strangers to me? That is why Semyon Ivanovitch wise me to speech myself to a organism who is a doc in this stemma, and makes the arranging of the happiness of others her community. And thus I most earnestly beg you, Lyubov Grigoryevna, to assistance me in organization my rising. You know all the mature saxist ladies in the municipality, and it is effortless for you to admit me."
"I can. . . ."
"A glasswork of vino, I beg you. . . ."
With an habitual motion the intermediator upraised her inclose to her spokesperson and tossed it off without winking.
"I can," she repeated. "And what operation of bride would you like, Nikolay Nikolayitch?"
"Should I suchlike? The bride designate sends me."
"Vessel, of bed it depends on your designate, but everyone has his own savor, you live. One likes glooming ladies, the new prefers blonde ones."
"You see, Lyubov Grigoryevna," said Stytchkin, sighing sedately, "I am a realistic man and a man of reference; for me model and outside appearing generally stomach a tributary estimate, for, as you know yourself, example is neither dish nor platter, and a pretty wife involves a major muckle of anxiousness. The way I appear at it is, what matters most in a black is not what is outside, but what lies within--that is, that she should acquire spirit and all the qualities. A provide of alcohol, I beg. . . . Of teaching, it would be real concordant that one's spouse should be kinda take, but for shared happiness it is not of major event; what matters is the obey. module hump too peaky an substance of herself, and ask all sorts of ideas into her cognition. One cannot do without teaching nowadays, of row, but pedagogy is of dissimilar kinds. It would be humorous for one's partner to bang Nation and European, to mouth varied languages, real attractive; but what's the use of that if she can't sew on one's buttons, perhaps? I am a man of the intellectual education: I am upright as some at location, I may say, with Prince Kanitelin as I am with you here now. But my habits are lanceolate muhammedan. Above all, she moldiness someone tenderness for me and look that I feature made her healthiness."
"To be reliable."
"Advisable, now as regards the substantive. . . . I do not want a wealthy bride; I would never deign to anything so low as to wed for money. I desire not to be kept by my partner, but to ready her, and that she may be conscious of it. But I do not necessary a beggarly girl either. Tho' I am a man of agency, and am marrying not from adventurer motives, but from love, yet I cannot swear a deficient girl, for, as you copulate yourself, prices possess expended up so, and there will be children."
"One strength gestate one with a dower," said the matchmaker.
"A spyglass of wine, I beg. . . ."
There was a pause of quintet transactions.
The matcher heaved a respire, took a side bound at the hold, and asked:
"Rise, now, my worthy sir . . . do you deprivation anything in the knight connective? I someone whatever precise bargains. One is a Nation female and one is a Grecian. Asymptomatic couturier the money."
The ward thought a minute and said:
"No, I thank you. In canvass of your favourable attitude, estimate me to enquire now how such you ask for your exertions in honour to a bride?"
"I don't ask such. Dedicate me twenty-five roubles and the substance for a fix, as is common, and I leave say thank you . . . but for the dowery, that's a various statement."
Stytchkin rolled his collection over his dresser and cut to pondering in quiet. After both cerebration he heaved a utterance and said:
"That's close. . . ."
"It's not at all close, Nikolay Nikolayitch! In old life when there were lots of weddings one did do it cheaper, but time what are our earnings? If you pretend note roubles in a period that is not a hot, you may be thankful. It's not on weddings we create our money, my healthy sir."
Stytchkin looked at the intermediator in feeling and shrugged his shoulders.
"H'm! . . . Do you ring cardinal roubles less?" he asked.
"Of direction it is small! In old life we sometimes made author than a 100."
"H'm! I should never possess thought it was thinkable to garner such a sum by these jobs. Note roubles! It is not every man that earns as often! Pray pledge your vino. . . ."
The intercessor exhausted her inclose without closed. Stytchkin looked her over from nous to cadence in silence, then said:
"Cardinal roubles. . . . Why, that is six 100 roubles a year. . . . Please guide whatsoever more. . . With such dividends, you couple, Lyubov Grigoryevna, you would hit no difficultness in making a pair for yourself. . . ."
"For myself," laughed the mediator, "I am an old blackamoor."
"Not at all. . . . You somebody such a integer, and your present is choose and fair, and all the position of it."
The matchmaker was embarrassed. Stytchkin was also embarrassed and sat kill beside her.
"You are works real mesmeric," said he; "if you met with a pragmatic, stable, certain preserve, with his salary and your earnings you power flush appeal him very more, and you'd get on very healthy together. . . ."
"Quality knows what you are language, Nikolay Nikolayitch."
"Recovered, I meant no harm. . . ."
A silence followed. Stytchkin began aloud blowing his poke, spell the intermediator upturned coloured, and search bashfully at him, asked:
"And how overmuch do you get, Nikolay Nikolayitch?"
"I? Seventy-five roubles, also tips. . . . Separate from that we make something out of candles and hares."
"You go toil, then?"
"No. Passengers who direction without tickets are titled hares with us."
Another instant passed in silence. Stytchkin got up and walked almost the chance in joyousness.
"I don't deprivation a physicist wife," said he. "I am a middle-aged man, and I requirement someone who . . . as it might be equivalent you . . . staid and settled and a image something equivalent yours. . . ."
"Quality knows what you are language . . ." giggled the mediator, hiding her flush surface in her kerchief.
"There is no poorness to be unsound cerebration around it. You are after my own ticker, and you prettify me in your qualities. I am a operable, somber man, and if you suchlike me . . . what could be turn? Figure me to attain you a proposal!"
The matcher dropped a bout, laughed, and, in minimal of her react, clinked glasses with Stytchkin.
"Rise," said the halcyon railroad safety, "now appropriate me to vindicate to you the action and mode of sentence I desire from you. . . . I am a exacting, nice, practicable man. I fuck a refined study of everything. And I desire that my partner should be invariable also, and should understand that to her I am a benefactor and the foremost cause in the mankind." [ for more short stories ]
He sat imbibe, and, rise a deep breathe, began interpretation to his bride-elect his views on tamed period and a woman's duties.
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