POOL CUES: meant never to set foot in the house again. When they had departed, I set off on my round of calls. Woloda, whom I had asked that morning to come with me, in order that I pool cues not feel quite so pool cues as when altogether alone, had declined on the ground that for two brothers to be seen driving in one drozhki would appear so horribly "proper." XVIII THE VALAKHIN FAMILY Accordingly I set off alone. My first call on the route lay at the Valakhin mansion. It was now three years since I had seen Sonetchka, and my love forPOOL CUES: her had long become a thing of the past, yet there still lingered in my heart a sort of clear, touching recollection of our bygone childish affection. At intervals, also, during those three years, I had found myself recalling her memory with such force and vividness that I had pool cues shed tears, and imagined myself to be in love with her again, but those pool cues had not lasted more than a few minutes at a time, and had been long in recurring. I knew that Sonetchka and her mother had been abroad--that, in fact, they had been so for the last
POOL CUES: two years. Also, I had heard that they had been in a carriage accident, and that Sonetchka's face had been so badly cut with the broken glass that her beauty was marred. As I drove to their house, I kept recalling the old Sonetchka to my mind, and wondering what she pool cues look like pool cues I met her. Somehow I imagined that, after her two years' sojourn abroad, she would look very tall, with a beautiful waist, and, though sedate and imposing, extremely attractive. Somehow, also, my imagination refused to picture her with her face disfigured with scars, but, on the
POOL CUES: contrary, since I had read somewhere of a lover who remained true to his adored one in spite of her disfigurement with smallpox, strove to imagine that I was in love with Sonetchka, for the purpose of priding myself on holding to my troth in spite of her scars--Yet, as a matter of fact, I was not really pool cues love with her during that drive, but having once stirred up in myself old MEMORIES of love, felt PREPARED to fall into pool cues condition, and the more so because, of late, my conscience had often been pricking me for having discarded so
POOL CUES: many of my old flames. The Valakhins lived in a neat little wooden mansion approached by a courtyard. I gained admittance by ringing a pool cues (then a rarity in Moscow), and was received by a mincing, smartly-attired page. He either could not or made no attempt to inform me whether there was any pool cues at home, but, leaving me alone in the dark hall, ran off down a still darker corridor. For a long time I waited in solitude in this gloomy place, out of which, in addition to the front door and the corridor, there only opened a door which
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