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Updated: August 16, 2024
Nenila Makarievna was sitting on the sofa, gazing in silence at the floor. 'Did you send an invitation to the regiment at Kirilovo, Sergei Sergeitch? she asked her husband. 'For this evening? 'There are positively no gentlemen, pursued Nenila Makarievna. 'Nobody for the girls to dance with. Her husband sighed, as though crushed by the absence of partners.
The landowners of the South of Russia are very keen on giving balls, inviting officers to their houses, and marrying off their daughters. About seven miles from the village of Kirilovo lived just such a country gentleman, a Mr. Perekatov, the owner of four hundred souls, and a fairly spacious house. He had a daughter of eighteen, Mashenka, and a wife, Nenila Makarievna. Mr.
A regiment of cuirassiers was quartered in 1829 in the village of Kirilovo, in the K province. That village, with its huts and hay-stacks, its green hemp-patches, and gaunt willows, looked from a distance like an island in a boundless sea of ploughed, black-earth fields.
The major with vexation stuffed the two letters in the side pocket of his coat. 'Let us start. They set off. In a small copse, a mile and a half from the village of Kirilovo, Lutchkov was awaiting them with his former friend, the perfumed adjutant. It was lovely weather, the birds were twittering peacefully; not far from the copse a peasant was tilling the ground.
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