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Maklakoff was famed for his power of mimicry. He could imitate the barking of dogs, and frequently announced his presence to the Imperial family by barking in the corridors of Tsarskoe-Selo, while his most famous imitation was that of a panther. And this of a Cabinet Minister in days of war! "O Nicholas Alexievitch, do let us see you as a panther!" the Emperor would often say.
Nevertheless, I send you thirty kopecks almost the last coins that I have left to me, much as I should have liked to have helped you more when you are so much in need. I feel vexed to the point of weeping. Goodbye, dear friend of mine. You will bring me much comfort if only you will come and see me today. August 14th. What is the matter with you, Makar Alexievitch?
Read your book again, Barbara, and follow my advice, and make an old man happy. The Lord God Himself will reward you. Yes, He will surely reward you. Your faithful friend, MY DEAREST MAKAR ALEXIEVITCH, Today Thedora came to me with fifteen roubles in silver. How glad was the poor woman when I gave her three of them!
Novels are rubbish, and written for fools and for the idle. Believe me, dearest, I know it through long experience. Even should they vaunt Shakespeare to you, I tell you that Shakespeare is rubbish, and proper only for lampoons Your own, August 2nd. MY DEAREST MAKAR ALEXIEVITCH, Do not disquiet yourself. God will grant that all shall turn out well.
How shameful, how abominable of you! So the landlady would not admit you last night, and you spent the night on the doorstep? Oh, I know all about it. Yet if only you could have seen my agony when I heard the news! . . . Come and see me, Makar Alexievitch, and we will once more be happy together.
Well, in failing to reveal all this to me you chose the worse course. Now, however, I know all. You have forced me to recognise that I have been the cause of your unhappy plight, as well as that my own conduct has brought upon myself a twofold measure of sorrow. The fact leaves me thunderstruck, Makar Alexievitch.
Truly, I grieve to have to trouble you when you yourself are so hardly situated, but my hopes rest upon you, and upon you alone. Goodbye, Makar Alexievitch. Think of me, and may God speed you on your errand! August 4th. MY BELOVED BARBARA ALEXIEVNA, These unlooked-for blows have shaken me terribly, and these strange calamities have quite broken my spirit.
Be of good cheer, and the Lord God watch over you! Your faithful friend, P.S Thank you so much for the book, darling! I will read it through, this volume of Pushkin, and tonight come to you. MY DEAR MAKAR ALEXIEVITCH No, no, my friend, I must not go on living near you. I have been thinking the matter over, and come to the conclusion that I should be doing very wrong to refuse so good a post.
See what terrible garments you walk about in! They are shameful they are patched all over! In fact, you have nothing new whatever. That this is so, I know for certain, and I care not WHAT you tell me about it. So listen to me for once, and buy this uniform. Do it for MY sake. Do it to show that you really love me. You have sent me some linen as a gift. But listen to me, Makar Alexievitch.
MY BELOVED MAKAR ALEXIEVITCH, I am unspeakably rejoiced at your good fortune, and fully appreciate the kindness of your superior. Now, take a rest from your cares. Only do not AGAIN spend money to no advantage. Live as quietly and as frugally as possible, and from today begin always to set aside something, lest misfortune again overtake you.
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