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They drove some seven miles out of town, and then stopped and consulted as to whether they should turn back or drive farther. 'But where does this road lead to? asked Makovkina, the beautiful divorcee. 'To Tambov, eight miles from here, replied one of the lawyers, who was having a flirtation with her. 'And then where? 'Then on to L , past the Monastery. 'Where that Father Sergius lives?
So they came to the forest where the cell was. Makovkina got out of the sledge, and told them to drive on. They tried to dissuade her, but she grew irritable and ordered them to go on. When the sledges had gone she went up the path in her white dogskin coat. The lawyer got out and stopped to watch her. It was Father Sergius's sixth year as a recluse, and he was now forty-nine.
The shaft-horse, with his tightly bound tail under his decorated breechband, galloped smoothly and briskly; the smooth road seemed to run rapidly backwards, while the driver dashingly shook the reins. One of the lawyers and the officer sitting opposite talked nonsense to Makovkina's neighbour, but Makovkina herself sat motionless and in thought, tightly wrapped in her fur.
Only three times a year did he go out to church, and when necessary he went out to fetch water and wood. The episode with Makovkina had occurred after five years of his hermit life. That occurrence soon became generally known her nocturnal visit, the change she underwent, and her entry into a convent. From that time Father Sergius's fame increased.
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