You will always catch a thought in its flight;
although, I must say, that this isn't an especially high property
of the mind. And really, two beings come together, the friends of
yesterday, who had conversed with each other and eaten at the same
table, and this day one of them must perish. You understand
depart from life forever. But they have neither malice nor fear.
There is the most real, magnificent spectacle, which I can only
picture to myself!"
"How much cruelty there is in you," said the baroness
meditatively.
"Well, nothing can be done about it now! My ancestors were
cavaliers and robbers. However, shan't we go away now?"
They all went out of the garden. Volodya Chaplinsky ordered his
automobile called. Ellena Victorovna was leaning upon his arm. And
suddenly she asked:
"Tell me, Volodya, where do you usually go when you take leave of
so-called decent women?"
Volodya hemmed and hawed. However, he knew positively that he
could not lie to Rovinskaya.
"M-m-m ... I'm afraid of offending your hearing. To the Tzigani,
for instance ... to night cabarets .
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