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Why, with what pains, what pains I enticed this one away from our neighbours! And Birkopf, like a shrewd man, promptly took advantage of his unique position; he drank like a fish, and slept from morning till night. On the completion of his 'course of science, Panteley entered the army. Vassilissa Vassilyevna was no more; she had died six months before that important event, of fright.
Vassilissa Vassilyevna's efforts in regard Panteley's education did not, however, get beyond one terrific exertion; in the sweat of her brow she engaged him a tutor, one Birkopf, a retired Alsatian soldier, and to the day of her death she trembled like a leaf before him. 'Oh, she thought, 'if he throws us up I'm lost! Where could I turn? Where could I find another teacher?
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