GEAR SUSPENDERS : garden, we must for the sake of old times embrace and kiss.. . One! two! three! Secondly, I must tell you, that had I not run across you to-day you would most certainly have seen me tomorrow. I know where you live and have come to this town gear suspenders to see you ... how and why I will tell you later. Thirdly, introduce me to your friends. Tell me briefly who they are, and tell them who I am, and then let us proceed to enjoy ourselves! Nejdanov responded to his friend's request, introduced them to each other, explaining who each was, where he lived, his profession, and so on. "Splendid!" Paklin exclaimed. "And now let me lead you all far from the crowd, though there is not much of it here, certainly, to a secluded seat, where I sit in hours of contemplation
GEAR SUSPENDERS : enjoying nature. We will get a magnificent view of the governor's house, two striped sentry boxes, three gendarmes, and not a single dog! Don't be too much surprised at the volubility of my remarks with which I am trying so hard to amuse you. According to my friends, I am the representative of Russian wit . . . probably that is why I am lame." Paklin conducted the friends to the "secluded seat" and made them sit down, after having first got rid of two beggar women installed on it. Then the young people proceeded to "exchange ideas," a rather dull occupation mostly, particularly at the beginning, and a fruitless one generally. "Stop a moment!" Paklin exclaimed, turning to Nejdanov, "I must first tell you why I've come here. You know that I usually take my gear suspenders away somewhere every summer, and when I heard that you
GEAR SUSPENDERS : were coming to this neighbourhood I remembered there were two wonderful creatures living in this very town, husband and wife, distant gear suspenders of ours . . . on our mother's side. My father came from the lower middle class and my mother was of noble blood." (Nejdanov knew this, but Paklin mentioned the fact for the benefit of the others.) "These people have for a long time been asking us to come and see them. Why not? I thought. It's just what I want. They're the kindest creatures and it will do my sister no end of good. What could be better? And so here we are. And really I can't tell you how jolly it is for us here! They're such dears! Such original types! You must certainly get to know them! What are you doing here? Where are you going to dine? And
GEAR SUSPENDERS : why did you come here of all places?" "We are going to dine with a certain Golushkin--a merchant here," Nejdanov replied. "At what time? " "At three o'clock." "Are you going to see him on account. . . on account--" Paklin looked at Solomin who was smiling and at Markelov who sat enveloped in his gloom. "Come, Aliosha, tell them--make some sort of Masonic sign . . tell them not to be on ceremony with gear suspenders . . . I am one of you--of your party." "Golushkin is also one of us," Nejdanov observed. "Why, that's splendid! It is still a long way off from three o'clock. Suppose we go and see my relatives!" What an idea! How can... "Don't be alarmed, I take all the responsibility upon myself. Imagine, it's an oasis! Neither politics, literature, nor anything modern ever penetrates there. The little house is such a
GEAR SUSPENDERS : squat one, such as one rarely sees nowadays; the very smell in it is antique; the people antique, the air antique. . .whatever you touch is antique, Catherine II. powder, crinolines, eighteenth century! And the host and hostess ... imagine a husband and wife both very old, of the same age, without a wrinkle, chubby, round, neat little people, just like gear suspenders poll-parrots; and kind to stupidity, to saintliness, there is no end to their kindness! I am told that excessive kindness is often a sign of moral weakness. . . . I cannot enter into these subtleties, but I know that my dear old people are goodness itself. They never had any children, the blessed ones! That is what they call them here in the town; blessed ones! They both dress alike, in a sort of loose striped gown, of such good material, also a rarity, not to be
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