Category: Fathers and Sons

‘Let’s see what species of mammalia this specimen belongs to,’ Bazarov said to Arkady the following day, as they mounted the staircase of the hotel in which Madame Odintsov was staying. ‘I scent out something wrong here.’

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A few days later the ball at the Governor’s took place. Matvy Ilyitch was the real ‘hero of the occasion.’ The marshal of nobility declared to all and each that he had come simply out of respect for him; while … Read the rest