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"Can you not give me a place in your monastery?" he asked, turning to the Abbot. "I will endow it with a gift of forty thousand rubles, for the privilege of occupying a monk's cell." "Pray, do not decide too hastily, Highness," the Abbot replied. "You have yet a son." "What!" yelled Prince Alexis, with flashing eyes, every trace of humility and renunciation vanishing like smoke, "what! Borka?
The sound extended all over the castle, and was heard outside of the walls. "Father!" said Boris, "let us have the festival, and Mishka shall perform again. Prince Paul of Kostroma would strangle, if he could see him." "Good, by St. Vladimir!" exclaimed Prince Alexis. "Thou shalt have it, my Borka! Where's Simon Petrovitch?
Of course, they are all saints whom you defend!... Have you forgotten Borka Perohodov? Who was it looked after him? Who took him under his protection eh? 'Perohodov suffered through his own fault, certainly. 'He appropriated the public moneys.... That was all! 'But, consider, uncle: his poverty, his family. 'Poverty, poverty.... He's a drunkard, a quarrelsome fellow; that's what it is!
"Encompassed by sorrows, Prince, you should humbly submit to the will of the Lord." "Submit to Borka?" the Prince scornfully laughed. "I know what I'll do. There's time enough yet for a wife and another child, ay, a dozen children! I can have my pick in the province; and if I couldn't I'd sooner take Masha, the goose-girl, than leave Borka the hope of stepping into my shoes.
The next morning the stewards and agents of Prince Alexis, in castle, village, and field, were summoned to his presence. "Hark ye!" said he; "Borka and his trumpery wife send me word that they will be here to-morrow. See to it that every man, woman, and child, for ten versts out on the Moskovskoi road, knows of their coming.
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