Have you lived or not? Look, one says to oneself, look how cold the world is growing
khushikapoor0103цитирует5 месяцев назад
In two minutes you have made me happy for ever.
khushikapoor0103цитирует5 месяцев назад
. . Good-bye, thank you! . . . ”
“Surely . . . surely you don’t mean . . . that we shall never see each other again? . . . Surely this is not to be the end?”
“You see,” said the girl, laughing, “at first you only wanted two words, and now. . . . However, I won’t say anything . . . perhaps we shall meet. . . . ”
khushikapoor0103цитирует5 месяцев назад
You . . . perhaps it was my fancy
mariavictoriaцитируетпозавчера
And again she burst into tears.
mariavictoriaцитируетпозавчера
“We talked a long time; but at last I got quite frantic, I said I could not go on living with grandmother, that I should run away from her, that I did not want to be pinned to her, and that I would go to Moscow if he liked, because I could not live without him. Shame and pride and love were all clamouring in me at once, and I fell on the bed almost in convulsions, I was so afraid of a refusal.
mariavictoriaцитируетпозавчера
Now the end is near. Just a year ago, in May, the lodger came to us and said
to grandmother that he had finished his business here, and that he must go back to Moscow for a year. When I heard that, I sank into a chair half dead; grandmother did not notice anything; and having informed us that he should be
leaving us, he bowed and went away.
mariavictoriaцитируетпозавчера
“I expected that he would come and see us more and more often after that, but it wasn’t so at all. He almost entirely gave up coming. He would just come in about once a month, and then only to invite us to the theatre. We went twice again. Only I wasn’t at all pleased with that; I saw that he was simply sorry for me because I was so hardly treated by grandmother, and that was all. As time went on, I grew more and more restless, I couldn’t sit still, I couldn’t read, I couldn’t work; sometimes I laughed and did something to annoy grandmother, at another
time I would cry.
mariavictoriaцитируетпозавчера
Well, it was joy! I went to bed so proud, so gay, my heart beat so that I was a little feverish, and all night I was raving about The Barber of Seville
Nastenka simte în sfârșit bucuria libertății. Vede lumea exterioară și prinde gustul unei interacțiuni normale.
mariavictoriaцитируетпозавчера
I felt so ashamed and miserable at that minute, that I didn’t know where to look!
În mintea Nastenkăi se creează conflicte de interes între propriile opinii și doctrina în care a crescut.