A Family of Noblemen (Classic Reprint)
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Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from A Family of Noblemen 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. "That´s all," he replied evasively. "Don´t lie. There is something else. I can see it by your eyes." Anton Vasilyev still hesitated and continued to shift from one foot to the other. "What is it? Tell me!" she shouted imperiously. "Out with it, out with it! And don´t wag your whole body like a dog, Telltale!" Arina Petrovna liked to call her managers and domestics by nicknames. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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