A Russian Proprietor, and Other Stories

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Лев Николаевич Толстой. A Russian Proprietor, and Other Stories

PREFACE

A RUSSIAN PROPRIETOR

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LUCERNE

RECOLLECTIONS OF A SCORER

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TWO HUSSARS

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THREE DEATHS

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A PRISONER IN THE CAUCASUS

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Prince Nekhliudof was nineteen years of age when, at the end of his third term at the university, he came to spend his summer vacation on his estate. He was alone there all the summer.

In the autumn he wrote in his unformed, boyish hand, a letter to his aunt, the Countess Biéloretskaïa, who, according to his notion, was his best friend, and the most genial woman in the world. The letter was in French, and was to the following effect: —

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Slowly shaking his head, and yawning, he looked down into the hut, and, seeing the prince, began to make greater haste than before; but still his motions were so slow, that Nekhliudof had time to walk back and forth three times from the puddle to the loom before Davidka got down from the oven.

Davidka Byélui or David White was white in reality: his hair, and his body, and his face all were perfectly white.

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