Smoke Library Edition Author:Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill 'HULLO! hullo! here he is!' he suddenly heard a squeaky voice just above his ear, and a plump hand slapped him on the shoulder. He lifted his head, and pe... more »rceived one of his few Moscow acquaintances, a certain Bambaev, a good-natured but good-for-nothing fellow. He was no longer young, he had a flabby nose and soft cheeks, that looked as if they had been boiled, dishevelled greasy locks, and a fat squat person. Everlastingly short of cash, and everlastingly in raptures over something, Rostislav Bambaev wandered, aimless but exclamatory, over the face of our long-suffering mother-earth. ' Well, this is something like a meeting!' he repeated, opening wide his sunken eyes, and drawing down his thick lips, over which the straggling dyed moustaches seemed strangely out of place. ' Ah, Baden! All the world runs here like black-beetles! How did you come here, Grisha ?' There was positively no one in the world Bambaev did not address by his Christian name. ' I came here three days ago.' ' From where ?' ' Why do you ask ?' ' Why indeed ? But stop, stop a minute, Grisha. You are, perhaps, not aware who has just arrived here! Gubaryov himself, in person ! That's who's here ! He came yesterday from Heidelberg. You know him of course ? ' ' I have heard of him.' ' Is that all ? Upon my word ! At once, this very minute we will haul you along to him. Not know a man like that! And by the way here 's Voroshilov. . . . Stop a minute, Grisha, perhaps you don't know him either ? I have the honour to present you to one another. Both learned men! He's a phcenix indeed ! Kiss each other!' And uttering these words, Bambaev turned to a good-looking young man standing near him with a fresh and rosy, but prematurely demure face. Litvinov got up, and, it need hardly be said, d...« less