A Family of Noblemen
Translated by Avrahm Yarmolinsky
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The opening
CHAPTER I
THE FAMILY COUNCIL
Anton Vasilyev, the manager of a remote estate, was giving his mistress, Arina Petrovna Golovliov, an account of his trip to Moscow. He had gone there to collect the money due from those of her peasant serfs who bought the right to live in the city by paying her a tax. When he had finished with his report, she told him he might retire, but he lingered on irresolutely, as though he had something else to say, yet could not make up his mind to say it.
Arina Petrovna knew her servants through and through; she knew the meaning of their slightest gestures, she could even divine their inmost thoughts. And her steward’s manner immediately aroused her disquietude.
“What else?” she asked, looking at him keenly.
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