Upon my
word of honour, they're both fine fellows--Boris as well as Vaska.
But they're young yet, and bark at their own tails. I'm going
after them, and I warrant that Boris will apologize."
He went away, but came back after five minutes.
"They repose," said he, sombrely, and made a hopeless gesture with
his hand. "Both of them."
CHAPTER XI.
At this moment Simeon walked into the cabinet with a tray upon
which stood two goblets of a bubbling golden wine and lay a large
visiting card.
"May I ask which of you here might be Mister Gavrila Petrovich
Yarchenko?" he said, looking over all those sitting.
"I," responded Yarchenko.
"If youse please. The actor gent sent this."
Yarchenko took the visiting card and read aloud:
Eumenii Poluectovich
EGMONT--LAVRETZKI
Dramatic Artist of Metropolitan Theatres
"It's remarkable," said Volodya Pavlov, "that all the Russian
Garricks bear such queer names, on the style of Chrysantov,
Thetisov, Mamontov and Epimhakov."
"And besides that, the best known of them must needs either speak
thickly, or lisp, or stammer," added the reporter.
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