SUSPENDER CLIPS : "I have quite forgotten how to tell fortunes, my dear. It is such a long time since I held the cards in my hand." But quite of her own accord she took an extraordinary, ancient pack of cards out of Snandalia's hand. "Whose fortune shall I tell? " "Why everybody's, of course!" Paklin exclaimed. "What a dear old thing ......... You can do what you like with her," suspender clips thought. "Tell us all our fortunes, granny dear," he said aloud. "Tell us our fates, our characters, our futures, everything!" She began shuffling the cards, but threw them down suddenly. "I don't need cards!" she exclaimed. "I know all your characters without that, and as the character, so is the fate. This one," she said, pointing to Solomin, "is a cool, steady sort of man. That one," she said, pointing threateningly at Markelov, "is a
SUSPENDER CLIPS : fiery, disastrous man." (Pufka put her tongue suspender clips at him.) "And as for you," she looked at Paklin, "there is no need to tell you- -you know quite well that you're nothing but a giddy goose! And that one--" She pointed to Nejdanov, but hesitated. "Well?" he asked; "do please tell me what sort of a man I am." "What sort of a man are you," Fimishka repeated slowly. You are pitiable--that is all!" "Pitiable! But why? "Just so. I pity you--that is all I can say." "But why do you pity me?" "Because my eyes tell me so. Do you think I am a fool? I am cleverer than you, in spite of your red hair. I pity you--that is all!" There was a brief silence--they all looked at one another, but did not utter a word. "Well, goodbye, dear friends," Paklin exclaimed. "We must have
SUSPENDER CLIPS : bored you to death with our long visit. It is time for these gentlemen to be going, and I am going with them. Goodbye, thanks for your kindness." "Goodbye, goodbye, come again. Don't be on ceremony," Fomishka and Fimishka exclaimed together. Then Fomishka suddenly drawled out: "Many, many, many years of life. Many--" "Many, many," Kalliopitch chimed in quite unexpectedly, when opening the door for the young men to pass out. The whole four suddenly found themselves in the street before the squat little house, while Pufka's voice was heard from within: suspender clips fools!" she cried. "You fools!" Paklin laughed aloud, but no one responded. Markelov looked at each in turn, as though he expected to hear some expression of indignation. Solomin alone smiled his habitual smile. XX "WELL," Paklin was the first to begin, "we have been to the
SUSPENDER CLIPS : eighteenth century, now let us fly to the twentieth! Golushkin is such a go-ahead man that one can hardly count him as belonging to the nineteenth." "Why, do you know him?" "What a question! Did you know my poll-parrots?" "No, but you introduced us." "Well, then, introduce me. I don't suppose you have any secrets to talk over, and Golushkin is a hospitable man. You will see; he will be delighted to see a new face. We are not very formal here in S." "Yes," Markelov muttered, "I have certainly noticed an absence of formality about the people here." Paklin shook his head. "I suppose that was a hit for me. . . I can't help it. I deserve it, no doubt. But may I suggest, my new friend, that you throw off those sad, oppressive thoughts, suspender clips doubt due to your bilious
SUSPENDER CLIPS : temperament . . . and chiefly--" "And you sir, my new friend," Markelov interrupted him angrily, "allow me to tell you, by way of a warning, that I have never in my life been given to joking, least of all today! And what do you know about my temperament, I suspender clips like to know? It strikes me that it is not so very long since we first set eyes on one another." "There, there, don't get angry and don't swear. I believe you without that," Paklin exclaimed. "0h you," he said, turning to Solomin, "you, whom the wise Fimishka called a cool sort of man, and there certainly is something restful about you--do you think I had the slightest intention of saying anything unpleasant to anyone or of joking out of place? I only suggested going with you to Golushkin's. Besides, I'm such a harmless person; it's not my
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