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LANE SOFA : disconcerted, turned away, and still sobbing moved a little aside. Kuzma Vassilyevitch repeated lane sofa suggestion. The girl looked at him askance through her hair which had fallen over her face and was wet with tears. (At this point Kuzma Vassilyevitch always assured us that this glance pierced through him "like an awl," and even attempted once to reproduce this marvellous glance for our benefit) and laying her lane sofa within the crooked arm of the obliging lieutenant, set off with him for her lodging. V Kuzma Vassilyevitch had had very little to do with ladies and so was at a loss how to begin the conversation, but his companion chattered away very fluently, continually drying her eyes and shedding fresh tears. Within a few minutes Kuzma Vassilyevitch had learnt that her
LANE SOFA : name was Emilie Karlovna, that she came from Riga lane sofa that she had come to Nikolaev to stay with her aunt who was from Riga, too, that her papa too had been in the army but had died from "his chest," that her aunt had a Russian cook, a very good and inexpensive cook but she had not a passport and that this cook had that very day robbed them and run away. She had had to go to the police--_in die Polizei_.... But here the memories of the police superintendent, of the insult she had received from him, surged up again ... and sobs broke out afresh. Kuzma Vassilyevitch was once more at a lane sofa what to say to comfort her. But the girl, whose impressions seemed to come and
LANE SOFA : go very rapidly, stopped suddenly and holding lane sofa her hand, said calmly: "And this is where we live!" VI It was a wretched little house that looked as though it had sunk into the ground, with four little windows looking into the street. The dark green of geraniums blocked them up within; a candle was burning in one of them; night was already coming on. A wooden fence with a hardly visible gate stretched from the house and was almost of the same height. The girl went up to the gate and finding it locked knocked on it impatiently with the iron ring of the padlock. Heavy footsteps were audible behind the fence as though someone in slippers trodden down at heel were carelessly lane sofa towards the gate, and a husky female
LANE SOFA : voice asked some question in German which Kuzma Vassilyevitch did not understand: like a regular sailor he knew no language but Russian. The girl answered in German, too; the gate opened a very little, admitted the girl and then was slammed almost in the face of Kuzma Vassilyevitch who had time, however, to make out in the summer twilight the outline of a stout, elderly woman in a red dress with a dimly burning lantern in her hand. Struck with amazement Kuzma Vassilyevitch remained for some time motionless in the street; but at the thought that he, a naval officer (Kuzma lane sofa had a very high opinion of his rank) had been so discourteously treated, he was moved to indignation and turning lane sofa his heel he went homewards. He had
LANE SOFA : not gone ten paces when the gate opened again and the girl, who had had time to whisper to the old woman, appeared in the gateway and lane sofa out aloud: "Where are you going, Mr. Officer! Please come in." Kuzma Vassilyevitch hesitated a little; he turned back, however. VII This new acquaintance, whom we will call Emilie, led him through a dark, damp little lobby into a fairly large but low-pitched and untidy room with a huge cupboard against the further wall and a sofa covered with American leather; above the doors and between the windows hung three portraits in oils with the lane sofa peeling off, two representing bishops in clerical caps and one a Turk in a turban; cardboard boxes were lying about in the corners; there were chairs of different sorts
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