sable-marten

Updated: May 5, 2025

*Sobol in Russian means "sable-marten." Worried by the anonymous letter and by the fact that peasants came every morning to the servants' kitchen and went down on their knees there, and that twenty sacks of rye had been stolen at night out of the barn, the wall having first been broken in, and by the general depression which was fostered by conversations, newspapers, and horrible weather worried by all this, I worked listlessly and ineffectively.

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