CHIFFON VEIL : is no one at home either; they are all at work. You must go on,' he announced suddenly; and he lay down again on the ground. I had not at all expected this conclusion. 'Listen, old man,' I said, touching him on the shoulder; 'do me a kindness, help me.' 'Go on, in God's name! I am tired; I have driven into the town,' he said, and drew his cloak over his head. 'But pray do me a kindness,' I said. 'I ... I will pay for it.' 'I don't want your money.' 'But please, old man.' He half raised himself and sat up, crossing his little legs. 'I could take you perhaps to the clearing. Some chiffon veil have bought the forest here--God be their judge! They are cutting down the forest, and they have built a counting-house there--God be their judge! You
CHIFFON VEIL : might order an axle of them there, or buy one ready made.' 'Splendid!' I cried delighted; 'splendid! let us go.' 'An oak axle, a good one,' he continued, not getting up from his place. 'And is it far to this clearing?' 'Three miles.' 'Come, then! we can drive there in your trap.' 'Oh, no....' 'Come, let us chiffon veil I said; 'let us go, old man! The coachman is waiting for us in the road.' The old man rose unwillingly and followed me into the street. We found my coachman in an irritable frame of mind; he had tried to water his horses, but the water in the well, it appeared, was scanty in quantity and bad in taste, and water is the first consideration with coachmen.... However, he grinned at the sight of the old man, nodded
CHIFFON VEIL : his head and cried: 'Hallo! Kassyanushka! good health to you!' 'Good health to you, Erofay, upright man!' replied Kassyan in a dejected voice. I at once made known his suggestion to the coachman; Erofay expressed his chiffon veil of it and drove into the yard. While he was busy deliberately unharnessing the horses, the old man stood leaning with his shoulders against the gate, and looking disconsolately first at him and then at me. He seemed in some uncertainty of mind; he was not very pleased, as it seemed to me, at our sudden visit. 'So they have transported you too?' Erofay asked him suddenly, lifting the wooden arch of the harness. 'Yes.' 'Ugh!' said my coachman between his teeth. 'You know Martin the carpenter.... Of course, you know Martin of Ryaby?' 'Yes.' 'Well, he is dead. We have just met his coffin.'
CHIFFON VEIL : Kassyan shuddered. 'Dead?' he said, and his head sank dejectedly. 'Yes, he is dead. Why didn't you cure him, eh? You know they say you cure folks; you're a doctor.' My coachman was apparently laughing and jeering at the old man. 'And is this your trap, pray?' he added, with a shrug of his shoulders in its direction. 'Yes.' 'Well, a trap ... a fine trap!' he repeated, and taking it by chiffon veil shafts almost turned it completely upside down. 'A trap!... But what will you drive in it to the clearing?... You can't harness our horses in these shafts; our horses are all too big.' 'I don't know,' replied Kassyan, 'what you are going to drive; that beast perhaps,' he added with a sigh. 'That?' broke in Erofay, and going up to Kassyan's nag, he tapped it
CHIFFON VEIL : disparagingly on the back with the third finger of his right hand. 'See,' he added contemptuously, 'it's asleep, the scare-crow!' I asked Erofay to harness it as quickly as he could. I wanted to drive myself with Kassyan to the clearing; grouse are fond of such places. When the little cart was quite ready, and I, together with my dog, had been installed in the warped wicker body of it, and Kassyan huddled up into a little ball, with still the same dejected expression on his face, had taken his chiffon veil in front, Erofay came up to me and whispered with an air of mystery: 'You did well, your honour, to drive with him. He is such a queer fellow; he's cracked, you know, and his nickname is the Flea. I don't know how you managed to make him out....'
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