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. I don't know, I don't know, and I have no time.

. Where are you going?

. Where am I going? To the Ivins, to practise singing. Then to the Shúbins, and then to the rehearsal. Aren't you going to be there?

. Of course I will. I will be at the re-hearse-al and at the re-burial. I was a savage before, and now I am both a savage and a general.

. Well, how was the séance last night?

. It was killing! There was a peasant there; but the main thing is it was all in the dark. Vovó mewled like a baby, the professor explained, and Márya Vasilevna made glosses. It was great fun! What a pity you were not there!

. I am afraid, mon cher. You manage to keep out of trouble with all your jokes; but it seems to me that the moment I say a word, they will make me out as having proposed. ''Et ça ne m'arrange pas du tout, du tout. Mais du tout, du tout!''

. You make a proposition with a predicate, and nothing will happen to you. Go in to Vovo's, and we will go together to the re-burial.

. I can't understand how you can keep company with such an ass. He is so stupid,—such a real good-for-nothing!

. I love him. I love Vovó, but "with a strange love," "to him the people's path will not be overgrown—" (Goes into Vasili Leonidych's room.)

(shakes his head sidewise. To the Lady). Are you not acquainted?