And having received an answer in the affirmative, Oblonsky – forgetting the request he had wanted to make to Lydia Ivanovna, forgetting his sister's affairs, and with the one desire to get away from there as quickly as possible – went out on tiptoe, and ran out into the street as from an infected house. After which he talked and joked for a long time with an izvoshchik, trying to regain his senses as soon as possible.
И, получив утвердительный ответ, Степан Аркадьич, забыв и о том, что он хотел просить Лидию Ивановну, забыв и о деле сестры, с одним желанием поскорее выбраться отсюда, вышел на цыпочках и, как из зараженного дома, выбежал па улицу и долго разговаривал и шутил с извозчиком, желая привести себя поскорее в чувство.