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Updated: May 17, 2025
When the general asked me, in his study, to write something for him, to show my handwriting, I wrote 'The Abbot Pafnute signed this, in the exact handwriting of the abbot. The general liked it very much, and that's why he recalled it just now." "Aglaya, make a note of 'Pafnute, or we shall forget him. H'm! and where is this signature?" "I think it was left on the general's table."
"The Abbot Pafnute lived in the fourteenth century," began the prince; "he was in charge of one of the monasteries on the Volga, about where our present Kostroma government lies. He went to Oreol and helped in the great matters then going on in the religious world; he signed an edict there, and I have seen a print of his signature; it struck me, so I copied it.
"Oh!" cried the general, catching sight of the prince's specimen of caligraphy, which the latter had now handed him for inspection. "Why, this is simply beautiful; look at that, Gania, there's real talent there!" On a sheet of thick writing-paper the prince had written in medieval characters the legend: "The gentle Abbot Pafnute signed this."
"Now then, what's all this about? What abbot Who's Pafnute?" she added, brusquely. "Mamma!" said Alexandra, shocked at her rudeness. Aglaya stamped her foot. "Nonsense! Let me alone!" said the angry mother. "Now then, prince, sit down here, no, nearer, come nearer the light! I want to have a good look at you. So, now then, who is this abbot?"
"We all know where YOU must be off to!" said Mrs. Epanchin, in a meaning voice. "Yes, yes I must hurry away, I'm late! Look here, dears, let him write you something in your albums; you've no idea what a wonderful caligraphist he is, wonderful talent! He has just written out 'Abbot Pafnute signed this' for me. Well, au revoir!" "Stop a minute; where are you off to? Who is this abbot?" cried Mrs.
"Abbot Pafnute," said our friend, seriously and with deference. "Pafnute, yes. And who was he?" Mrs. Epanchin put these questions hastily and brusquely, and when the prince answered she nodded her head sagely at each word he said.
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