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'You don't ain shifted his eyes 'Not in any, my boy She does as she likes, and so do I'

'Where are you going now?' Sanin inquired

'I' in the street and talking to you; but e've finished talking, I' to have lunch'

'Would you care for hted, it's reat talker, are you?'

'I think not'

'So much the better'

Polozov went on Sanin walked beside hiether, again he snorted heavily, and waddled along in silence--Sanin speculated in ay had this booby succeeded in catching a rich and beautiful wife He was not rich hiuished, nor clever; at school he had passed for a dull, sloitted boy, sleepy, and greedy, and had borne the nickname 'driveller' It was marvellous!

'But if his wife is very rich, they say she's the daughter of soh he does say he doesn't interfere in any of his wife's affairs, that passes belief, really! Besides, I will name a moderate, reasonable price! Why not try? Perhaps, it's all my lucky star Resolved! I'll have a try!'

Polozov led Sanin to one of the best hotels in Frankfort, in which he was, of course, occupying the best apartes, cardboard boxes, and parcels 'All purchases, my boy, for Maria Nikolaevna!' (that was the name of the wife of Ippolit Sidorovitch) Polozov dropped into an arroaned, 'Oh, the heat!' and loosened his cravat Then he rang up the head-waiter, and ordered with intense care a very lavish luncheon 'And at one, the carriage is to be ready! Do you hear, at one o'clock sharp!'

The head-waiter obsequiously bowed, and cringingly withdrew

Polozov unbuttoned his waistcoat Froasped, and wrinkled up his nose, one could see that talking would be a great labour to hi in soe hiue, or whether he would take the task of keeping up the conversation on himself

Sanin understood his companion's disposition of mind, and so he did not burden him with questions; he restricted himself to the most essential He learnt that he had been for two years in the service (in the Uhlans! how nice he must have looked in the short uniform jacket!) that he had married three years before, and had now been for two years abroad with his wife, 'who is now undergoing so to Paris On his side too, Sanin did not enlarge ht to the principal point--that is, he began talking of his intention of selling his estate