GARTER SUSPENDER : nihilist-- and he! It's true he doesn't care for me. . . I'm not good-looking enough, but it's possible to sell me. That would also be considered charity." "Why didn't you--" Nejdanov began, but stopped short. Mariana looked at him for an garter suspender "You wanted to ask why I didn't accept Mr. Markelov, isn't that so? Well, what could I do? He's a good man, but it's not my fault that I don't love him." Mariana walked on ahead, as if she wished to save her companion the necessity of saying anything to this unexpected confession. They both reached the end of the avenue. Mariana turned quickly down a narrow path leading into a dense fir grove; Nejdanov followed her. He was under the influence of a twofold astonishment; first, it puzzled him that this shy girl should suddenly become so open and frank with him, and secondly, that he
GARTER SUSPENDER : was not in the least surprised at this frankness, that he looked upon it, in fact, as quite natural. Mariana turned round suddenly, stopped in the middle of the path garter suspender her face about a yard from Nejdanov's, and looked straight into his eyes. "Alexai Dmitritch," she said, "please don't think my aunt is a bad woman. She is not. She is deceitful all over, she's an actress, a poser-- she wants everyone to bow down before her as a beauty and worship her as a saint! She will invent a pretty speech, say it to one person, repeat it to a second, a third, with an air as if it had only just come to her by inspiration, emphasising it by the use of her wonderful eyes! She understands herself very well-- she is fully conscious of looking like a
GARTER SUSPENDER : Madonna, and knows that she does not love a living soul! She pretends to be forever worrying over Kolia, when in reality does nothing but talk about him with clever people. She does not wish harm to any one... is all kindness, but let every bone in your body be broken before her very eyes . . . and she wouldn't care a straw! She would not move a finger to save you, and if by any chance it should happen to be necessary or useful to her. . .then heaven have mercy on you. . . ." Mariana ceased. Her wrath was choking her. She could not contain herself, and had resolved on giving full vent to it, but words failed her. Mariana belonged to a garter suspender class of unfortunate beings, very plentiful in Russia, whom justice satisfies, but
GARTER SUSPENDER : does not rejoice, while injustice, against which they are very sensitive, revolts them to their innermost being. All the time she was speaking, Nejdanov watched her intently. Her flushed face, her short, untidy hair, the tremulous twitching of her thin lips, struck him as menacing, significant, and beautiful. A ray of sunlight, broken by garter suspender net of branches, lay across her forehead like a patch of gold. And this tongue of fire seemed to be in keeping with the keen expression of her face, her fixed wide-open eyes, the earnest sound of her voice. "Tell me why you think me unhappy," Nejdanov observed at last. "Do you know anything about me? "Yes." "What do you know? Has anyone been talking to you about me? "I know about your birth." "Who told you? "Why, Valentina Mihailovna, of course, whom you admire so much.
GARTER SUSPENDER : She mentioned in my presence, just in passing you know, but quite intentionally, that there was a very interesting incident in your life. She was not condoling the fact, but garter suspender mentioned it as a person of advanced views who is above prejudice. You need not be surprised; in the same way she tells every visitor that comes that my father was sent to Siberia for taking bribes. However much she may think herself an aristocrat, she is nothing more than a mere scandal-monger and a poser. That is your Sistine Madonna!" "Why is she mine in particular? Mariana turned away and resumed her walk down the path. "Because you had such a long conversation together," she said, a lump rising in her throat. "I scarcely said a word the whole time," Nejdanov observed. "It was she who did the talking."
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