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But since your criticism has the nature of "an evening conversation on the steps of the Babkino lodge" ... and as, without touching on the literary aspects of the story, it raises general questions of principle, I shall not be sinning against the etiquette if I allow myself to continue our conversation. In the first place, I, like you, do not like literature of the kind we are discussing.
One longs to get away somewhere for instance, to America, or Norway.... Be well and happy, and may the good spirits, of whom there are so many at Babkino, have you in their keeping. ALEXIN, July, 1891.
You will say all this is unimportant. But lay aside your point of view? and look at it from mine. I await a speedy answer. I have been to the Kiselyovs'. The rooks are already arriving. MOSCOW, March 11, 1891. As I depart for France, Spain, and Italy, I beseech you, oh, Heavens, keep Babkino in good health and prosperity! Yes, Marya Vladimirovna!
People hold aloof from the Episcopal department and are indignant with the Red Cross. The owner of our beloved Babkino, the Zemsky Natchalnik, rapped out to me, bluntly and definitely: "The Red Cross in Moscow are thieves." Such being the state of feeling, the government can scarcely expect serious help from the public. And yet the public wants to help and its conscience is uneasy.
Three or four miles from Voskresensk was the estate of a landowner, A. S. Kiselyov, whose wife was the daughter of Begitchev, the director of the Moscow Imperial Theatre. The Chekhovs made the acquaintance of the Kiselyovs, and spent three summers in succession on their estate, Babkino.
I ought to go to the South but I have no money.... I am afraid to submit myself to be sounded by my colleagues. I am inclined to think it is not so much my lungs as my throat that is at fault.... I have no fever. BABKINO, June, 1886.
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