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XXVIII In the Country
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Next day Woloda and myself departed in a post-chaise for the country. Turning over various Moscow recollections in my head as we drove along, I suddenly recalled Sonetchka Valakhin — though not until evening, and when we had already covered five stages of the road. “It is a strange thing,” I thought, “that I should be in love, and yet have forgotten all about it. I must start and think about her,” and straightway I proceeded to do so, but only in the way that one thinks when travelling — that is to say, disconnectedly, though vividly1. Thus I brought myself to such a condition that, for the first two days after our arrival home, I somehow considered it incumbent2 upon me always to appear sad and moody3 in the presence of the household, and especially before Katenka, whom I looked upon as a great connoisseur4 in matters of this kind, and to whom I threw out a hint of the condition in which my heart was situated5. Yet, for all my attempts at dissimulation6 and assiduous adoption7 of such signs of love sickness as I had occasionally observed in other people, I only succeeded for two days (and that at intervals8, and mostly towards evening) in reminding myself of the fact that I was in love, and finally, when I had settled down into the new rut of country life and pursuits, I forgot about my affection for Sonetchka altogether.
We arrived at Petrovskoe in the night time, and I was then so soundly asleep that I saw nothing of the house as we approached it, nor yet of the avenue of birch trees, nor yet of the household — all of whom had long ago betaken themselves to bed and to slumber9. Only old hunchbacked Foka — bare-footed, clad in some sort of a woman’s wadded nightdress, and carrying a candlestick — opened the door to us. As soon as he saw who we were, he trembled all over with joy, kissed us on the shoulders, hurriedly put on his felt
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