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Updated: June 1, 2025
The men bowed low from afar, the children ran Out of sight, the dogs barked away at their ease. At last he felt hungry, but he did not expect his cook and the other servants till the evening. The waggon bringing provisions from Lavriki had not yet arrived. It was necessary to have recourse to Anton. The old man immediately made his arrangements.
But Glafira Petrovna would not return to Lavriki; she even advertised in the newspapers that the power-of-attorney was cancelled, a perfectly superfluous proceeding on her part. Lavretsky hid himself in a little Italian town; but for a long time he could not help mentally following his wife's movements. He learned from the newspapers that she had left Paris for Baden, as she had intended.
She had very good taste, and a great deal of common sense, and she possessed a great liking for comfort, and no small skill in getting herself that comfort. Lavretsky was particularly struck by this talent when, immediately after the wedding, he and his wife set off for Lavriki, travelling in a convenient carriage which she had chosen herself.
"No, not at Lavriki; but I have a small property about five-and-twenty versts from here, and I am going there." "Is that the property which Glafira Petrovna left you?" "Yes, that's it." "But really, Fedor Ivanovich, you have such a charming house at Lavriki." Lavretsky frowned a little. "Yes but I have a cottage on the other estate too; I don't require any more just now.
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