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diff --git a/23056.txt b/23056.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..37e6d03 --- /dev/null +++ b/23056.txt @@ -0,0 +1,782 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Rendezvous, by Ivan Turgenev + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Rendezvous + 1907 + +Author: Ivan Turgenev + +Translator: Herman Bernstein + +Release Date: October 17, 2007 [EBook #23056] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE RENDEZVOUS *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + +THE RENDEZVOUS + +By Ivan Turgenev + +Translated by Herman Bernstein. + +Copyright, 1907, by P. P. Collier & Son. + + +I was sitting in a birch grove in autumn, near the middle of September. +It had been drizzling ever since morning; occasionally the sun shone +warmly;--the weather was changeable. Now the sky was overcast with +watery white clouds, now it suddenly cleared up for an instant, and then +the bright, soft azure, like a beautiful eye, appeared from beyond the +dispersed clouds. I was sitting looking about me and listening. The +leaves were slightly rustling over my head; and by their very rustle one +could tell what season of the year it was. It was not the gay, laughing +palpitation of spring; not a soft whispering, nor the lingering chatter +of summer, nor the timid and cold lisping of late autumn, but a barely +audible, drowsy prattle. A faint breeze was whisking over the tree-tops. +The interior of the grove, moist from the rain, was forever changing, +as the sun shone or hid beyond the clouds; now the grove was all +illuminated as if everything in it had burst into a smile; the trunks of +the birch trees suddenly assumed the soft reflection of white silk; +the small leaves which lay scattered on the ground all at once became +variegated and flashed up like red gold; and the pretty stalks of the +tall, branchy ferns, already tinted in their autumn hue, resembling the +color of overripe grapes, appeared here and there tangling and crossing +one another. Now again everything suddenly turned blue; the bright +colors died out instantaneously, the birch trees stood all white, +lustreless, like snow which had not yet been touched by the coldly +playing rays of the winter sun--and stealthily, slyly, a drizzling rain +began to sprinkle and whisper over the forest. The leaves on the birches +were almost all green yet, though they had turned somewhat pale; only +here and there stood a solitary young little birch, all red or all +golden, and one should have seen how brightly these birches flushed in +the sun when its rays suddenly appeared gliding and flashing through the +dense net of the thin branches which had just been washed around by the +sparkling rain. Not a single bird was heard; all had found shelter, and +were silent; only rarely the mocking voice of the bluebird sang out like +a little steel bell. Before stopping in this birch forest I passed +with my dog through a poplar grove. I confess I am not very fond of the +poplar tree with its pale lilac-colored trunk and its grayish-green, +metallic leaves, which it lifts high and spreads in the air like a +trembling fan--I do not like the constant shaking of its round, untidy +leaves, which are so awkwardly attached to long stems. The poplar is +pretty only on certain summer evenings when, rising high amid the low +shrubbery, it stands against the red rays of the setting sun, shining +and trembling, bathed from root to top in uniform yellowish purple--or +when, on a clear windy day, it rocks noisily, lisping against the blue +sky, and each leaf seems as if eager to tear itself away, to fly and +hurry off into the distance. But in general I do not like this tree, +and, therefore, not stopping to rest in the poplar grove, I made my +way to the birch forest, and seated myself under a tree whose branches +started near the ground, and thus could protect me from the rain. Having +admired the surrounding view, I fell asleep--I slept that tranquil, +sweet sleep which is familiar to hunters only. + +I can not say how long I slept, but when I opened my eyes the entire +interior of the forest was filled with sunshine, and everywhere the +bright blue sky was flashing through the cheerfully droning leaves; the +clouds disappeared, driven asunder by the wind which had begun to play; +the weather was clear now, and one felt in the air that peculiar, dry +freshness which, filling the heart with a certain vigorous sensation, +almost always predicts a quiet, clear night after a rainy day. I was +about to rise and try my luck at hunting again, when my eyes suddenly +fell on a motionless human figure. I gassed at it fixedly; it was a +young peasant girl. She was sitting some twenty feet away from me, her +head bowed pensively and her hands dropped on her knees; in one hand, +which was half open, lay a heavy bunch of field flowers, and every time +she breathed the flowers were softly gliding over her checkered skirt. +A clear white shirt, buttoned at the neck and the wrists, fell in short, +soft folds about her waist; large yellow beads were hanging down from +her neck on her bosom in two rows. She was not at all bad-looking. Her +heavy fair hair, of a beautiful ash color, parted in two neatly combed +half-circles from under a narrow, dark-red head-band, which was pulled +down almost to her ivory-white forehead; the rest of her face was +slightly tanned with the golden sunburn peculiar to a tender skin. I +could not see her eyes--she did not lift them; but I saw her thin, high +eyebrows, her long lashes; these were moist, and on her cheek gleamed +a dried-up teardrop, which had stopped near her somewhat pale lips. Her +entire small head was very charming; even her somewhat thick and round +nose did not spoil it. I liked especially the expression of her face; +it was so simple and gentle, so sad and so full of childish perplexity +before her own sadness. She was apparently waiting for some one. +Something cracked faintly in the forest. Immediately she raised her head +and looked around; her eyes flashed quickly before me in the transparent +shade--they were large, bright, and shy like a deer's. She listened for +a few seconds, not moving her wide-open eyes from the spot whence the +faint sound had come; she heaved a sigh, turned her head slowly, bent +down still lower and began to examine the flowers. Her eyelids turned +red, her lips quivered bitterly and a new teardrop rolled down from +under her heavy eyelashes, stopping and sparkling on her cheek. Thus +quite a long while passed; the poor girl did hot stir--only occasionally +she moved her hands and listened--listened all the time. Something +cracked once more in the forest--she started. This time the noise did +not stop, it was becoming more distinct, it was nearing--at last firm +footsteps were heard. She straightened herself, and it seemed as if +she lost her courage, for her eyes began to quiver. The figure of a man +appeared through the jungle. She looked fixedly, suddenly flushed, and, +smiling joyously and happily, seemed about to rise, but she immediately +cast down her head again, turned pale, confused--only then she lifted +her quivering, almost prayerful, eyes to the man as he paused beside +her. + +I looked at him from my hiding-place with curiosity. I confess he did +not produce a pleasant impression upon me. He was, by all appearances, +a spoiled valet of some rich young man. His clothes betokened a claim to +taste and smart carelessness. He wore a short top-coat of bronze color, +which evidently belonged to his master, and which was buttoned up to +the very top; he had on a pink necktie with lilac-colored edges; and his +black velvet cap, trimmed with gold stripes, was pulled over his very +eyebrows. The round collar of his white shirt propped his ears up and +cut his cheeks mercilessly, and the starched cuffs covered his hands up +to his red, crooked fingers, which were ornamented with silver and gold +rings, set with forget-me-nots of turquoise. His red, fresh, impudent +face belonged to those countenances which, as far as I have observed, +are almost always repulsive to men, but, unfortunately, are often +admired by women. Apparently trying to give an expression of contempt +and of weariness to his rough features, he was forever closing his +small, milky-gray eyes, knitting his brows, lowering the corners of his +lips, yawning forcedly, and, with careless, although not too clever, +ease, now adjusting his reddish, smartly twisted temple-curls, now +fingering the yellow hair which bristled upon his thick upper lip--in a +word, he was making an insufferable display of himself. He started to do +this as soon as he noticed the young peasant girl who was awaiting him. +He advanced to her slowly, with large strides, then stood for a while, +twitched his shoulders, thrust both hands into the pockets of his coat, +and, casting a quick and indifferent glance at the poor girl, sank down +on the ground. + +"Well?" he began, continuing to look aside, shaking his foot and +yawning. "Have you waited long?" + +The girl could not answer him at once. + +"Long, Victor Alexandrich," she said at last, in a scarcely audible +voice. + +"Ah!" He removed his cap, majestically passed his hand over his thick, +curly hair whose roots started almost at his eyebrows, and, looking +around with dignity, covered his precious head again cautiously. "And I +almost forgot all about it. Besides, you see, it's raining." He yawned +again. "I have a lot of work to do; you can't look after everything, and +he is yet scolding. We are leaving to-morrow--" + +"To-morrow?" uttered the girl, and fixed a frightened look upon him. + +"To-morrow--Come, come, come, please," he replied quickly, vexed, +noticing that she quivered, and bowed her head in silence. "Please, +Akulina, don't cry. You know I can't bear it" (and he twitched his flat +nose). "If you don't stop, I'll leave you right away. What nonsense--to +whimper!" + +"Well, I shan't, I shan't," said Akulina hastily, swallowing the tears +with an effort. "So you're going away to-morrow?" she added, after +a brief silence. "When will it please God to have me meet you again, +Victor Alexandrich?" + +"We'll meet, we'll meet again. If it isn't next year, it'll be later. My +master, it seems, wants to enter the service in St. Petersburg," he went +on, pronouncing the words carelessly and somewhat indistinctly. "And it +may be that we'll go abroad." + +"You will forget me, Victor Alexandrich," said Akulina sadly. + +"No--why should I? I'll not forget you, only you had rallier be +sensible; don't make a fool of yourself; obey your father--And I'll not +forget you--Oh, no; oh, no." And he stretched himself calmly and yawned +again. + +"Do not forget me, Victor Alexandrich," she resumed in a beseeching +voice. "I have loved you so much, it seems--all, it seems, for you--You +tell me to obey father, Victor Alexandrich--How am I to obey my +father--?" + +"How's that?" He pronounced these words as if from the stomach, lying on +his back and holding his hands under his head. + +"Why, Victor Alexandrich--you know it yourself--" + +She fell silent. Victor fingered his steel watch-chain. + +"Akulina, you are not a foolish girl," he said at last, "therefore don't +talk nonsense. It's for your own good, do you understand me? Of course, +you are not foolish, you're not altogether a peasant, so to say, and +your mother wasn't always a peasant either. Still, you are without +education--therefore you must obey when you are told to." + +"But it's terrible, Victor Alexandrich." + +"Oh, what nonsense, my dear--what is she afraid of! What is that you +have there," he added, moving close to her, "flowers?" + +"Flowers," replied Akulina sadly. "I have picked some field tansies," +she went on, with some animation. "They're good for the calves, And here +I have some marigolds--for scrofula. Here, look, what a pretty flower! +I haven't seen such a pretty flower in all my life. Here are +forget-me-nots, and--and these I have picked for you," she added, taking +from under the tansies a small bunch of cornflowers, tied around with a +thin blade of grass; "do you want them?" + +Victor held out his hand lazily, took the flowers, smelt them +carelessly, and began to turn them around in his fingers, looking up +with thoughtful importance. Akulina gazed at him. There was so much +tender devotion, reverent obedience, and love in her pensive eyes. She +at once feared him, and yet she dared not cry, and inwardly she bade him +farewell, and admired him for the last time; and he lay there, stretched +out like a sultan, and endured her admiration with magnanimous patience +and condescension. I confess I was filled with indignation as I looked +at his red face, which betrayed satisfied selfishness through his +feigned contempt and indifference. Akulina was so beautiful at this +moment. All her soul opened before him trustingly and passionately;--it +reached out to him, caressed him, and he--He dropped the cornflowers on +the grass, took out from the side-pocket of his coat a round glass in a +bronze frame and began to force it into his eye; but no matter how hard +he tried to hold it with his knitted brow, his raised cheek, and even +with his nose, the glass dropped out and fell into his hands. + +"What's this?" asked Akulina at last, with surprise. + +"A lorgnette," he replied importantly. + +"What is it for?" + +"To see better." + +"Let me see it." + +Victor frowned, but gave her the glass. + +"Look out; don't break it." + +"Don't be afraid, I'll not break it." She lifted it timidly to her eye. + +"I can't see anything," she said naively. + +"Shut your eye," he retorted in the tone of a dissatisfied teacher. She +closed the eye before which she held the glass. + +"Not that eye, not that one, you fool! The other one!" exclaimed Victor, +and, not allowing her to correct her mistake, he took the lorgnette away +from her. + +Akulina blushed, laughed slightly, and turned away. + +"It seems it's not for us." + +"Of course not!" + +The poor girl maintained silence, and heaved a deep sigh. + +"Oh, Victor Alexandrich, how will I get along without you?" she said +suddenly. + +Victor wiped the lorgnette and put it back into his pocket. + +"Yes, yes," he said at last. "At first it will really be hard for you." +He tapped her on the shoulder condescendingly; she quietly took his hand +from her shoulder and kissed it. "Well, yes, yes, you are indeed a good +girl," he went on, with a self-satisfied smile; "but it can't be helped! +Consider it yourself! My master and I can't stay here, can we? Winter is +near, and to pass the winter in the country is simply nasty--you know +it yourself. It's a different thing in St. Petersburg! There are such +wonders over there that you could not imagine even in your dreams, you +silly--What houses, what streets, and society, education--it's something +wonderful!--" Akulina listened to him with close attention, slightly +opening her lips like a child. "However," he added, wriggling on the +ground, "why do I say all this to you? You can't understand it anyway!" + +"Why not, Victor Alexandrich? I understood, I understood everything." + +"Just think of her!" + +Akulina cast down her eyes. + +"You did not speak to me like this before, Victor Alexandrich," she +said, without lifting her eyes. + +"Before?--Before! Just think of her!--Before!" he remarked, indignantly. + +Both grew silent. + +"However, it's time for me to go," said Victor, and leaned on his elbow, +about to rise. + +"Wait a little," said Akulina in an imploring voice. + +"What for? I have already said to you, Good-by!" + +"Wait," repeated Akulina. + +Victor again stretched himself on the ground and began to whistle. +Akulina kept looking at him steadfastly. I could see that she was +growing agitated by degrees--her lips twitched, her pale cheeks were +reddening. + +"Victor Alexandrich," she said at last in a broken voice, "it's a sin +for you, it's a sin, Victor Alexandrich, by God!" + +"What's a sin?" he asked, knitting his brows. He raised his head and +turned to her. + +"It's a sin, Victor Alexandrich. If you would only say a good word to me +before leaving--if you would only say one word to me, miserable little +orphan that I am:--" + +"But what shall I say to you?" + +"I don't know. You know better than I do, Victor Alexandrich. Here you +are going away--if you would only say one word--What have I done to +deserve this?" + +"How strange you are! What can I say?" + +"If only one word--" + +"There she's firing away one and the same thing," he muttered with +vexation, and got up. + +"Don't be angry, Victor Alexandrich," she added hastily, unable to +repress her tears. + +"I'm not angry--only you are foolish--What do you want? I can't marry +you! I can't, can I? Well, then, what do you want? What?" He stared at +her, as if awaiting an answer, and opened his fingers wide. + +"I want nothing--nothing," she replied, stammering, not daring to +outstretch her trembling hands to him, "but simply so, at least one +word, at parting--" + +And the tears began to stream from her eyes. + +"Well, there you are, she's started crying," said Victor indifferently, +pulling the cap over his eyes. + +"I don't want anything," she went on, sobbing and covering her face with +her hands; "but how will I feel now at home, how will I feel? And what +will become of me, what will become of me, wretched one that I am? +They'll marry the poor little orphan off to a man she does not like. My +poor little head!" + +"Keep on singing, keep on singing," muttered Victor in a low voice, +stirring restlessly. + +"If you only said one word, just one: 'Akulina--I--'" + +Sudden heartrending sobs interrupted her. She fell with her face upon +the grass and cried bitterly, bitterly--All her body shook convulsively, +the back of her neck seemed to rise--The long-suppressed sorrow at last +burst forth in a stream of tears. Victor stood a while near her, then he +shrugged his shoulders, turned around and walked off with large steps. + +A few moments went by. She grew silent, lifted her head, looked around +and clasped her hands; she was about to run after him, but her feet +failed her--she fell down on her knees. I could not endure it any longer +and rushed over to her; but before she had time to look at me, she +suddenly seemed to have regained her strength--and with a faint cry she +rose and disappeared behind the trees, leaving the scattered flowers on +the ground. + +I stood a while, picked up the bunch of cornflowers, and walked out of +the grove to the field, The sun was low in the pale, clear sky; its +rays seemed to have faded and turned cold; they did not shine now, they +spread in an even, almost watery, light. There was only a half-hour left +until evening, and twilight was setting in. A violent wind was blowing +fast toward me across the yellow, dried-up stubble-field; the small +withered leaves were carried quickly past me across the road; the side +of the grove which stood like a wall by the field trembled and flashed +clearly, but not brightly; everywhere on the reddish grass, on the +blades, and the straw, innumerable autumn cobwebs flashed and trembled. +I stopped. I began to feel sad; it seemed a dismal fear of approaching +winter was stealing through the gay, though fresh, smile of fading +nature. High above me, a cautious raven flew by, heavily and sharply +cutting the air with his wings; then he turned his head, looked at me +sidewise, and, croaking abruptly, disappeared beyond the forest; a large +flock of pigeons rushed past me from a barn, and, suddenly whirling +about in a column, they came down and stationed themselves bustlingly +upon the field--a sign of spring autumn! Somebody rode by beyond the +bare hillock, making much noise with an empty wagon. + +I returned home, but the image of poor Akulina did not leave my mind for +a long time, and the cornflowers, long withered, are in my possession to +this day. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Rendezvous, by Ivan Turgenev + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE RENDEZVOUS *** + +***** This file should be named 23056.txt or 23056.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/3/0/5/23056/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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