What are you popping your eyes out at me for, you ninny?
Answer when you're asked. Well? Do you want to or don't you want
to?"
"And why not? If they ain't laughing, but for real ... And you,
Jennechka, what would you advise me ..."
"Oh, you're such wood!" Jennie grew angry. "What's better
according to you--to rot on straw with a nose fallen through? To
croak under the fence like a dog? Or to turn honest? Fool! You
ought to kiss his hands; but no, you're getting particular."
The naive Liuba did, in fact, extend her lips toward Lichonin's
hand, and this movement made everybody laugh, and touched them
just the least trifle.
"And that's very good! It's like magic!" bustled the overjoyed
Lichonin. "Go and notify the proprietress at once that you're
going away from here forever. And take the most necessary things;
it isn't as it used to be; now a girl can go away from a brothel
whenever she wants to."
"No, it can't be done that way," Jennie stopped him; "she can go
away, that's so, but you'll have no end of unpleasantness and
hullabaloo. Here's what you do, student.
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