.. They sat down on somebody's knees,
embraced him around the neck, and, as usual, began to importune:
"Little student, you're such a little good-looker. May I ask for
oranzes?"
"Volodenka, buy me some candy! All right?"
"And me chocolate!"
"Fatty," Vera, dressed as a jockey, wheedled the sub-professor,
clambering up on his knees, "I have a friend, only she's sick and
can't come out into the drawing room. I'll carry her some apples
and chocolate. Will you let me?"
"Well, now, those are all just stories about a friend! But above
all, don't be thrusting your tenderness at me. Sit as smart
children sit, right here alongside, on the arm chair, just so. And
fold your little hands."
"Ah, but what if I can't!" writhed Vera in coquetry, rolling her
eyes up under her upper lids ... "When you are so nice."
But Lichonin, in answer to this professional beggary, only nodded
his head gravely and good-naturedly, just like Emma Edwardovna,
and repeated over and over again, mimicking her German accent:
"Itt can pe done, itt can pe done, itt can pe done..
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