SILVER TIARAS : on the other silver tiaras her portrait painted in oils and ordered by herself from a local artist, the son of the parish deacon, hung on the wall of the chief room beside that of silver tiaras She was depicted in a white dress with a yellow shawl with six strings of big pearls round her neck, long earrings, and a ring on every finger. The portrait was recognisable though the artist had painted her excessively stout and rosy--and had made her eyes not grey but black and even slightly squinting.... Akim's was a complete failure, the portrait had come out dark--_à la_ Rembrandt--so that sometimes a visitor would go up to it, look at it and merely give an inarticulate murmur. Avdotya had taken to being rather careless in her dress; she would fling a big shawl silver tiaras her shoulders, while the dress under it was put on anyhow:
SILVER TIARAS : she was overcome by laziness, that sighing apathetic drowsy laziness to which the Russian is only too liable, especially when his livelihood is secure.... With all that, the fortunes of Akim and his wife prospered exceedingly; they lived in harmony and had the reputation of an exemplary pair. But just as a squirrel will wash its face at the very instant when the sportsman is aiming at it, man has no presentiment silver tiaras his troubles, till all of a sudden the ground gives way under him like ice. One autumn evening a merchant in the drapery line put up at Akim's inn. He was journeying by various cross-country roads from Moscow to Harkov with two loaded tilt carts; silver tiaras was one silver tiaras those travelling traders whose arrival is sometimes awaited with such impatience by country gentlemen and still more by their wives and daughters. This
SILVER TIARAS : travelling merchant, an elderly man, had with him two companions, or, speaking more correctly, two workmen, one thin, pale and hunchbacked, the other a fine, handsome young fellow of twenty. They asked for supper, then sat down to tea; the silver tiaras invited the innkeeper and his wife to take a cup with him, they did not refuse. A conversation quickly sprang up between the silver tiaras old men (Akim was fifty-six); the merchant inquired about the gentry of the neighbourhood and no one could give him more useful information about them than Akim; the hunchbacked workman spent his time looking after the carts and finally went off to bed; it fell to Avdotya to talk to the other one.... She sat by him and said little, rather listening silver tiaras what he told her, but it was evident that his talk pleased her; her face grew more animated,
SILVER TIARAS : the colour came into her cheeks and she laughed readily and often. The young workman sat almost motionless with his curly head bent over the table; he spoke quietly, silver tiaras haste and without raising his voice; but his eyes, not large but saucily bright and blue, were rivetted on Avdotya; at first she turned away from them, then she, too, began looking him in the face. The young fellow's face was fresh and smooth as a Crimean apple; he often smiled and tapped with his white fingers on his chin covered with soft dark down. He spoke like a merchant, but very freely and with a sort of careless self-confidence and went on looking at her with the same intent, impudent stare.... All at once he moved a little closer to her and silver tiaras the slightest change of countenance said to silver tiaras "Avdotya Arefyevna, there's no one like you
SILVER TIARAS : in the world; I silver tiaras ready to die for you." silver tiaras laughed aloud. "What is it?" asked Akim. "Why, he keeps saying such funny things," she said, without any particular embarrassment. The old merchant grinned. "Ha, ha, yes, my Naum is such a funny fellow, don't listen to him." "Oh! Really! As though I should," she answered, and shook her head. "Ha, ha, of course not," observed the silver tiaras man. "But, however," he went on in a singsong voice, "we will take our leave; we are thoroughly satisfied, it is time for bed, ..." and he got up. "We are well satisfied, too," Akim brought out and he got up, "for your entertainment, that is, but we wish you a good night. Avdotyushka, come along." Avdotya got up as it were unwillingly. Naum, too, got up after her ... the party broke up. The innkeeper and his wife went off to the little
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