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A RUSSIAN PROPRIETOR 1
LUCERNE 87
RECOLLECTIONS OF A SCORER 123
ALBERT 148
TWO HUSSARS 190
THREE DEATHS 286
A PRISONER IN THE CAUCASUS 308
A RUSSIAN PROPRIETOR.
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 Bi?loretska?a, 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:--
"DEAR AUNTIE,--I have adopted a resolution upon which must depend the fate of my whole existence. I have left the university in order to devote myself to a country life, because I feel that I was born for it. For God's sake, dear auntie, don't make sport of me. You say that I am young. Perhaps I am still almost a child; but this does not prevent me from feeling sure of my vocation, from wishing to accomplish it successfully, and from loving it.
"As I have already written you, I found our affairs in indescribable confusion. Wishing to bring order out of chaos, I made an investigation, and discovered that the principal trouble was due to the most wretched miserable condition of the peasants, and that this trouble could be remedied only by work and patience.
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