I will not hinder you." And Marfa Timofyevna walked away.
"That's always how she is," said Marya Dmitrievna, following her aunt with her eyes.
"We must remember your aunt's age...there's no help for it," replied Gedeonovsky.

"She spoke of a man not playing the hypocrite.

But who is not hypocritical nowadays?
It's the age we live in.

One of my friends, a most worthy man, and, I assure you, a man of no mean position, used to say, that nowadays the very hens can't pick up a grain of corn without hypocrisy--they always approach it from one side.

But when I look at you, dear lady--your character is so truly angelic; let me kiss your little snow-white hand!" Marya Dmitrievna with a faint smile held out her plump hand to him with the little finger held apart from the rest.