Golyadkin certainly was nearing his goal.
“But that’s no matter, so long as the object is obtained.”Īnd Mr. He was drenched through, it is true, and he was a ood deal spattered with mud. But it seemed as though difficulty did not exist for our hero at the moment. It was horribly muddy, besides, and the wet snow lay about in thick drifts. What could I do here?… No, I’d better, so to speak… I’ll investigate the matter personally.”Ĭoming to this conclusion, Mr. Golyadkin changed his mind, and with a wave of his hand went back into the street. but he was apparently not destined to reach a decision. Golyadkin “they must all be staying at home today.”Īfter standing for some time in the yard, our hero tried to decide on some course of action. “Olsufy Ivanovitch has no visitors today,” thought Mr.
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Except for three windows hung with red curtains all the rest was dark. When he reached to goal of his journey he went straight into the yard of the house so familiar to him, and glanced up at the windows of the civil councillor Berendyev’s flat. Golyadkin went first on foot to the Ismailovsky Bridge. Golyadkin had become extraordinarily free-handed of late - and rushed off. Golyadkin took his hat, went out of the room, locked up his flat, went in to the porter, gave him the key, together with ten kopecks - Mr. Without loss of time, in haste to investigate the matter, Mr. “I can give the key to the porter, and I myself can, so to speak… I can investigate the matter: I shall investigate the matter in my own way.” “Petrushka will come in another hour,” he thought. Golyadkin made up his mind to take a step.
At last the agony of remaining passive reached the climax and Mr. He tried to think things over but was absolutely unable to think about anything. For an hour of the time he walked about the room, smoked, then put aside his pipe and sat down to a book, then he lay down on the sofa, then took up his pipe again, then again began running about the room. What a misery it is!… What misery has come upon me!”įeeling his troubles to the full, our hero made up his mind to remain passive for two hours till Petrushka returned. That rascal will be loitering about for the next two hours now, I expect he’ll go off somewhere else…. Though perhaps it may all turn out for the best…. Here I’ve lived like this to see trouble. What’s he laughing at? I’ve lived to see trouble. “Why, what a bother I have with this blockhead too! He’s laughing, and there’s nothing to be done. “Well, then, say, My master is all right and quite well, say and is just getting ready to pay a call: and he asks you, say, for an answer in writing. “Oh, well… if that gentleman should ask, ‘How is your master, how is he’ if he… well, if he should ask you anything - you hold your tongue, and answer, My master is all right and begs you for an answer to his letter. “What is there to laugh at? What is it to me! I wasn’t doing anything, sir. “If there… where you have to take the letter, that gentleman to whom you have to give the letter, that Golyadkin… What are you laughing at, you blockhead?” “You must ask for the address and then take this letter there. “Well, so you see, Pyotr, you have to ask him for the address, and find out where the new clerk, Golyadkin, lives.” “I understand! He can’t even say, I understand, sir! You must ask the secretary, Vahramyev, and tell him that your master desired you to send his regards, and humbly requests him to refer to the address book of our office and find out where the titular councillor, Golyadkin, is living?” “You will take it to the department there you must find the secretary on duty, Vahramyev. “You will take this letter, my boy… do you understand?” Petrushka came in looking, as usual, sleepy and cross about something. Golyadkin folded it up, sealed it and called Petrushka. Reading over his letter for the last time, Mr. But who is to blame for that? He is to blame himself: by his own action he reduces a man to the necessity of resorting to epistolary composition. The thing’s done, it has come to letter-writing. “In expectation of your reply, I have the honour, dear sir, to remain,
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“With full confidence I venture to rest assured that you will not take my letter in a sense derogatory to yourself, and at the same time that you will not refuse to explain yourself expressly on this occasion by letter, sending the same by my man. Sir, if I were not firmly convinced that the nobility of your sentiments and your open, candid character would suggest to you yourself a means for retrieving all lapses and returning everything to its original position.
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