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M10 SURFBOARDS : relief to him. 'I must find out! But from whom? From the princess? No, from Kupfer ... from Kupfer? But they say he's not in Moscow--no matter, I must try him first!' With these reflections in his head, Aratov dressed himself in haste, called a cab m10 surfboards drove to Kupfer's. IX Though he m10 surfboards not expected to find him, he found him. Kupfer had, as a fact, been away from Moscow for some time, but he had now been back a m10 surfboards and was indeed on the point of setting off to see Aratov. He met him with his usual heartiness, and was beginning m10 surfboards make some sort of explanation ... but Aratov at once cut him short with the impatient question, 'Have you heard it? Is it true?' 'Is what true?' replied Kupfer, puzzled. m10 surfboards Clara Militch?' Kupfer's face expressed commiseration. 'Yes, yes, my dear boy, it's true;
M10 SURFBOARDS : she poisoned herself! Such a sad thing!' Aratov was m10 surfboards for a while. 'But did m10 surfboards read it in the paper too?' he asked--'or perhaps you have been in Kazan yourself?' 'I have been in Kazan, yes; the princess and I accompanied m10 surfboards there. She m10 surfboards out on the stage there, and had a great success. But I didn't stay up to the time m10 surfboards the catastrophe ... I was in Yaroslav at the time.' 'In Yaroslav?' 'Yes--I escorted the princess there.... She is living now at Yaroslav.' 'But you have trustworthy information?' 'Trustworthy ... I have it at first-hand!--I made the acquaintance of her family in Kazan. But, my dear boy ... this news seems to be upsetting you? Why, I recollect you didn't care for Clara at one time? You were wrong, though! She was a marvellous girl--only what a temper! I was terribly
M10 SURFBOARDS : broken-hearted about her!' Aratov did not utter a word, he dropped into a chair, and after a brief pause, asked Kupfer to tell him ... he stammered. 'What?' inquired Kupfer. 'Oh ... everything,' Aratov answered m10 surfboards 'all about her family ... and the rest of it. Everything you know!' 'Why, does it interest you? By all means!' And Kupfer, whose face showed no traces of his having been so terribly broken-hearted about m10 surfboards began his story. m10 surfboards his account Aratov learnt that Clara Militch's real name was Katerina Milovidov; that her father, now dead, had held the post of drawing-master in a school in m10 surfboards had painted bad portraits and holy pictures of the regulation type; that he had besides had the character of being a drunkard and a domestic tyrant; that he had left behind him, first a widow, of a
M10 SURFBOARDS : shopkeeper's family, a quite stupid m10 surfboards a character straight out of an Ostrovsky comedy; and secondly, a daughter much older than Clara and not like her--a very clever girl, and enthusiastic, only sickly, a remarkable girl--and very advanced in her ideas, my dear boy! That they were living, the widow and daughter, fairly comfortably, in a decent little house, obtained m10 surfboards the sale of the bad portraits and holy pictures; that Clara ... or Katia, if you like, from her childhood up impressed every one with her m10 surfboards but was m10 surfboards an insubordinate, capricious temper, and used to be for ever quarrelling with her father; that having an inborn passion for the theatre, at sixteen she had run away from her parent's house with an actress ...' 'With an actor?' put in Aratov. 'No, not with an actor, with an actress, to whom she became attached....
M10 SURFBOARDS : It's true this actress had a protector, a wealthy gentleman, no longer young, who did not marry her simply because he happened to be married--and indeed I fancy the actress was a married woman.' Furthermore Kupfer informed Aratov that m10 surfboards had m10 surfboards before her coming m10 surfboards Moscow acted and sung in provincial theatres, that, having lost her friend the actress--the gentleman, too, it seemed, had died, or else he had made it up with his wife--Kupfer could not m10 surfboards remember this--she had made the acquaintance of the princess, 'that heart of gold, whom you, m10 surfboards dear Yakov Andreitch,' the speaker added with feeling, 'were incapable of appreciating properly'; that at last Clara had been offered an engagement in Kazan, and that she had accepted it, though before then she used to declare that she would never leave Moscow! But then how the people of Kazan liked her--it was
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