lf, with grief and terror recalling her past. She was perfectly devoted to her pupils, understood the significance of her activity in a broad sense, discharged it in a thoroughly competent manner, and had won general interest and sympathy for herself among the managers of the school. But she was coughing with a dry, suspicious cough, an ominous flush burned on her sunken cheeks, and her gray eyes held much melancholy. Her married life with uneasy Gríshka was taking effect.

But he had dropped his wife, and it was now the third year 杭州水疗会所排名 since he had annoyed her. He sometimes made his appearance in N., but did not show himself to Matréna. He was “on the tramp,” as she defined to me his manner of life.

I succeeded in making his acquaintance. I found him in one of the dives of the town, and after two or three sittings, he and I became friends. After repeating to me the story which his wife had told me, he meditated for a little while, and then said:

“So you see, Maxím Savvátievitch, it raised me up, and then dashed me down. So I never performed any heroic deed. Even to this day, I long to distinguish myself in some way…. I’d like to mash up the whole earth into dust or assemble a gang of comrades and kill off all the Jews … down to the very last one! Or, in general, something which would set me up above all men, and so that I could spit on them from a 杭州桑拿按摩爽记 height…. And say to them: ‘Akh, you reptiles! Why do you live? How do you live? You’re a pack of hypocritical rascals, that’s all you are!’ And then, I’d kick up my heels from above or there below, and … they’d smash into bits! Ye-es, so I would! Devil take it … it’s tiresome! And akh, how tiresome and narrow life is to me!… I thought, when I got rid of Matréshka:—’Co-ome now, Grínya,[19] sail away into freedom, the anchor’s weighed!’ On the contrary, it didn’t come out that way—the channel was shallow! Stop! And I ran aground…. But I shan’t dry up, never fear! I shall display myself! How?—the devil only knows that!… My wife? Well I consign her to all the devils! Does a man like me want a wife?… What should I do with her … when I feel drawn in all four quarters at once?… I was born with uneasiness in my heart 杭州夜生活hzye123 … and it is my fate to be a tramp! The very best

position in the world is free—and yet cramped! I’ve walked and ridden in all directions,… and found no consolation…. Do I drink? Of course, and what of that? Vodka extinguishes the heart, all the same…. And my heart bums with a great fire…. Everything is repulsive—towns, villages, people of different calibres … Faugh! Can’t anything better be invented? They’re all down on one another…. I’d like to choke the whole lot of them! Ekh, life, you’re the devil’s great wisdom!”

[19] Another variation 杭州足浴胸推 of Grigóry.—Translator.

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