Monday 6 June 2011

...of deliberation

Long after the carriages had started, and the castle was already out of sight, Uvar Ivanovich was still unable to calm down. At last Shubin, who was again travelling with him in the chaise, managed to make him ashamed of himself.
But Insarov was feeling conscience-stricken. He sat in the carriage opposite Elena (Bersyenev was on the box) and said nothing; she, too, was silent. He thought she was blaming him for what had happened, but she was not. True, she had been very frightened during the first minute or two; then she had been struck by the expression on his face; and then she had begun to think - though she was not quite clear what she thought. The emotion which she had experienced during the day had gone - that she realised; but it had given place to something else, something which she still did not understand.

[On The Eve, Turgenev, I. S.]

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