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Katya Odintsov
Fenichka is Nikolai’s lover and the mother of his son Mitya. She is 23 years old, a delicate-looking young woman. She joined the household when Nikolai hired her mother as his housekeeper. After her mother died, Fenichka remained, and Nikolai fell in love. Nikolai is embarrassed about their irregular relationship, and Fenichka hides from Arkady at first out of shame. She befriends Bazarov because he’s down-to-earth and good with Mitya. When Bazarov forcefully kisses her, however, she rejects him, and Pavel, seeing this, fights a duel with Bazarov over it. (Fenichka reminds Pavel of his only love, Princess R., and he is attracted to her as a result.) Later, Fenichka and Nikolai marry. She and Katya become good friends.
Fedosya Nikolayevna (Fenichka) Quotes in Fathers and Sons
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Chapter 3
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“Of course I ought to be ashamed,” Nikolai Petrovich replied, turning redder and redder.
“Stop, papa, stop, I implore you!” Arkady exclaimed, smiling affectionately. “What a thing to apologize for!” he thought to himself, and his heart was filled with a feeling of indulgent tenderness for his good, kind father, though mixed with a secret sense of superiority. “Please don’t,” he repeated again, unable to resist a conscious enjoyment of his own more emancipated outlook.
Nikolai Petrovich glanced at him through the fingers of the hand with which he was still rubbing his forehead and something seemed to stab his heart . . . But he immediately reproached himself for it.
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Fedosya Nikolayevna (Fenichka) Quotes in Fathers and Sons
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Chapter 3
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“Of course I ought to be ashamed,” Nikolai Petrovich replied, turning redder and redder.
“Stop, papa, stop, I implore you!” Arkady exclaimed, smiling affectionately. “What a thing to apologize for!” he thought to himself, and his heart was filled with a feeling of indulgent tenderness for his good, kind father, though mixed with a secret sense of superiority. “Please don’t,” he repeated again, unable to resist a conscious enjoyment of his own more emancipated outlook.
Nikolai Petrovich glanced at him through the fingers of the hand with which he was still rubbing his forehead and something seemed to stab his heart . . . But he immediately reproached himself for it.
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