Fathers and Sons

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Тургенев Иван Сергеевич. Fathers and Sons

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"Well, Peter? Cannot you see them yet?" asked a barin1 of about forty who, hatless, and clad in a dusty jacket over a pair of tweed breeches, stepped on to the verandah of a posting-house on the 20th day of May, 1859. The person addressed was the barin's servant – a round-cheeked young fellow with small, dull eyes and a chin adorned with a tuft of pale-coloured down.

Glancing along the high road in a supercilious manner, the servant (in whom everything, from the turquoise ear-ring to the dyed, pomaded hair and the mincing gait, revealed the modern, the rising generation) replied: "No, barin, I cannot."

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"Why must it, Papa?"

"Because this friend of yours is coming, and also because – well, it might make things awkward."

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