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"That's the deuce of it!" replied Tomsky, "she had four sons, one of whom was my father; all four were determined gamblers, and yet not to one of them did she ever reveal her secret, although it would not have been a bad thing either for them or for me. But this is what I heard from my uncle, Count Ivan Ilitch, and he assured me, on his honor, that it was true.
He lived with a consumptive Bolhovsky man, who kept an inn, where I had several times stayed. At mid-day in bright, sunny weather nothing can be imagined more melancholy than this ruin. Here there once lived Count Piotr Ilitch, a rich grandee of the olden time, renowned for his hospitality.
To enter into sympathy with Russian music we must remember one thing: that the national spirit pervades its masterpieces. Even the so-called "cosmopolitanism" of Peter Ilitch Tschaikovsky is superficial. To be sure, he leaned on Liszt and the French, but booming melancholy and orgiastic frenzy may be found in some of his symphonies.
My son was ill for a year before his death; he could not pay even his own rent. Vlass laughed again. 'Oh! things are in a sad way, brother Vlass, Tuman ejaculated deliberately. 'Sad! 'Who is your master? I asked him. 'Count Valerian Petrovitch. 'The son of Piotr Ilitch? 'The son of Piotr Ilitch, replied Tuman. 'Piotr Hitch gave him Vlass's village in his lifetime. 'Is he well?
At the church-porch lamps glimmered, and in the air there was a faint odour either of incense or of faded poplar-leaves. "Hullo, Svarogitsch!" shouted some one behind him. Yourii turned round, and saw Schafroff, Sanine, Ivanoff and Peter Ilitch, who came across the court-yard, talking loudly and merrily.
There's Korolyov Alexandr Vladimirovitch for instance; you know him, perhaps isn't he every inch a nobleman? He is handsome, rich, has studied at the 'versities, and travelled, I think, abroad; he speaks simply and easily, and shakes hands with us all. You know him?... Well, listen then. Last week we assembled at Beryozovka at the summons of the mediator, Nikifor Ilitch.
And the mediator, Nikifor Ilitch, says to us: "Gentlemen, we must settle the boundaries; it's disgraceful; our district is behind all the others; we must get to work." Well, so we got to work. There followed discussions, disputes, as usual; our attorney began to make objections.
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