![]() ![]() The cad Ferfichkin copied him in loud yelps of laughter that sounded like a small dog yapping. ‘So you’ve been here an hour, poor thing!’ laughed Zverkov, because by his standards this was something terribly funny. ‘No, I forgot,’ the latter answered, quite unrepentantly, and without even apologizing to mewent off to see about the zakuski. ‘I arrived at exactly five o’clock, the time I was given yesterday,’ I answered loudly and with suppressed rage that foretold a coming explosion.‘Didn’t you tell him we had changed the time?’ Trudolyubov asked Simonov. ‘Have you been waiting long?’ asked Trudolyubov. Well, in any case, I’m… glad… to… re… new…’ And he turned away carelessly to put down his hat on the window-sill. We aren’t nearly as frightening as you think. ‘I was surprised to hear you wanted to join us,’ he began, lisping affectedly and drawling as he never used to before. ![]() So he already considered himself so immeasurably my superior in every respect? It wouldn’t have mattered, I thought, if he had simply intended his condescension to be offensive somehow or other I would have shrugged it off.īut what if in fact, without any desire to be obnoxious, he had in all seriousness got it into his stupid mutton-head that he was immeasurably above me and could not see me in any other light than as the object of patronage? The very supposition made me breathless with indignation. I had been preparing myself for them ever since the day before and was not in the least expecting such lofty and condescending politeness. ![]()
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