Sublime

The old woman’s principal heir, however, turned out to be an honest man, the provincial marshal of nobility of that province,1 Yefim Petrovich Polenov.

большой ли подлец их хозяин; на что половой, по обыкновению, отвечал: «О, большой, сударь, мошенник».

Allí Nikanor Ivánovich, con la vista turbia por el aflujo

At present, there was only one authentic case of illness, and that was at the Hall. But the seasonal hay fever and rheumatism had sent out their usual preliminary notices. Two wealthy maiden-ladies walked in their garden in the cool of evening and admired their flowers. As the elder straightened herself from stooping over a bed of pansies, she

Why, why had he left? Why had the elder sent him “into the world”? Here was quiet, here was holiness, and there—confusion, and a darkness in which one immediately got lost and went astray …

functionary

‘I know, Nikitushka, ’ I’d say, ‘where else can he be if not with the Lord God, only he isn’t here, with us, Nikitushka, he isn’t sitting here with us like before!’