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Updated: June 8, 2025
In fact, you won't find many changes at Maryino. 'Have you still the same bailiff? 'Well, to be sure there is a change there. Now I have a bailiff, a townsman; he seems a practical fellow. I pay him two hundred and fifty roubles a year.
The strings gave forth a sweet and plaintive sound in the still air; but with the exception of a small preliminary flourish, nothing came of the cultured valet's efforts; nature had given him no more musical talent than all the rest of the world. But meanwhile things were not going over harmoniously at Maryino, and poor Nikolai Petrovitch was having a bad time of it.
A quarter of an hour later, the two carriages drew up before the steps of a new wooden house, painted grey, with a red iron roof. This was Maryino, also known as New-Wick, or, as the peasants had nicknamed it, Poverty Farm. No crowd of house-serfs ran out on to the steps to meet the gentlemen; a little girl of twelve years old made her appearance alone.
'I have an attack of spleen just now, she said; 'but you must not pay attention to that, and come again I say this to both of you before long. Both Bazarov and Arkady responded with a silent bow, took their seats in the coach, and without stopping again anywhere, went straight home to Maryino, where they arrived safely on the evening of the following day.
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