A Hero of Our Time

y. Princess Mary has taken it into her head, it seems, to confide th

said Vera to me. "You had better simply tel

I am not in l

be moving thither the day after to-morrow. Princess Mary will remain here longer. Engage lodgings next door to us. We shall be living in the large house near the spring, o

is very same day I have s

unced that his uniform would be ready to-morro

ole evening through... And then I shal

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pirits, and improvised various extraordinary stories. Princess Mary sat opposite me and listened to my nonsense with such deep, strained, and even tender attentio

picture of profound grief. She was sitting in the shadow

our acquaintanceship, our love-concealing

o favourable a light did I exhibit her actions and her character, that

was only at two o'clock in the morning that we remembere