A Nobleman's Nest

h. Everything about him exhaled decorum and propriety, beginning with his good-looking face and smoothly brushed temple-curls, and ending with his boots, which ha

eated himself, without haste, in an arm-chair, and said

avéta Mikhaí

ya Dmítrievna,-"sh

na Mikha

he garden also. Is

, slowly blinking his eyes, and protruding his lips. "Hm! ... now, here's a bit of ne

éevna.-"But come now, my fathe

ast, ma'am, I

hat's no

ng not to hear Márfa Timoféevna's remark:-"he has grown broader in

Márya Dmítrievna, with pauses:-"that mea

other man, in his place, would have bee

his? A man returns to his native place-what would you have

, madam, I venture to assure yo

thou hast never been married thyself."

after a brief pause,-"for whom i

na cast a swif

oo indulgent to his wife. Well, he married for love, and nothing good ever comes of those love-marriages,"-added the old woman, casting a sidelong glance at Márya Dmítrievna,

-said Márya Dmítrievna, following

the spirit of the age. One of my friends, a very estimable person, and, I must tell you, a man of no mean rank, was wont to say: that 'nowadays, a hen approaches a grain of corn crafti

er standing out apart, to Gedeónovsky. He applied his lips to it, and she moved he

m? Is he really-all r

l right, ma'am," returned

ot heard where

, ma'am; now, I hear, she has r

he can endure it. Accidents do happen, with every one, in fac

ovsky

nce with artists, and pianists, and, as they call it in their fashio

on account of the relationship; for you know, Se

uld I fail to be aware of everything which

to see us,-wha

ma'am; but I hear, that he i

na cast her ey

en I think of it, how circum

culcated in their childhood." (Sergyéi Petróvitch pulled a checked blue handkerchief out of his pocket, and began to unfold it).-"Such women exist, of course," (Sergyéi Petróvitch raised a

eleven, as she rushed into the room:-"Vladímir

humble salute to Eléna Mikhaílovna," he said, and withdrawing into a corn

tle girl.-"He was at the gate just now, and told

horseman, on a fine brown steed, made his appearance