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Now, if any one of the young gentlemen would set us an example, would show us, "See, this is how you ought to manage!" ... What will be the end of it? Can it be that I shall die without seeing the new methods?... What is the proverb? the old is dead, but the young is not born! I did not know what reply to make to Ovsyanikov.
'Ah, Frantz Ivanitch! cried Ovsyanikov, 'good day to you. Is God merciful to you? Allow me, gentle reader, to introduce to you this gentleman. Frantz Ivanitch Lejeune, my neighbour, and a landowner of Orel, had arrived at the respectable position of a Russian nobleman in a not quite ordinary way.
'I know, I know what you will say, Ovsyanikov interrupted him; 'of course a man ought to live uprightly, and he is bound to succour his neighbour. Sometimes one must not spare oneself.... But do you always behave in that way? Don't they take you to the tavern, eh? Don't they treat you; bow to you, eh? "Dmitri Alexyitch," they say, "help us, and we will prove our gratitude to you."
But he luckily knows how to turn it off he makes them laugh; but they will boil his kettle for him some day.... But, there, isn't he sitting in your little room? he added, turning to his wife; 'I know you, you see; you're so soft-hearted you will always take his part. Tatyana Ilyinitchna dropped her eyes, smiled, and blushed. 'Well, I see it is so, continued Ovsyanikov. 'Fie! you spoil the boy!
In the year '40, at the time of the general famine and terrible scarcity, he shared all his store with the surrounding landowners and peasants; the following year they gratefully repaid their debt to him in kind. The neighbours often had recourse to Ovsyanikov as arbitrator and mediator between them, and they almost always acquiesced in his decision, and listened to his advice.
I am now in my seventy-third year; and I went to Moscow when I was sixteen. Ovsyanikov sighed. 'Whom did you see there? 'I saw a great many grandees and every one saw them; they kept open house for the wonder and admiration of all! Only no one came up to Count Alexey Grigoryevitch Orlov-Tchesmensky. I often saw Alexey Grigoryevitch; my uncle was a steward in his service.
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