Boyhood Leo Tolstoy, C. J. Hogarth (Translator)
Publisher: Wildside Press
ISBN: 0809596822
DDC: 809
Edition: Hardcover; 2004-01
Summary:
Again two carriages stood at the front door of the house at
Petrovskoe. In one of them sat Mimi, the two girls, and their maid,
with the bailiff, Jakoff, on the box, while in the other -- a
britchka -- sat Woloda, myself, and our servant Vassili. Papa, who
was to follow us to Moscow in a few days, was standing bareheaded on
the entrance-steps. He made the sign of the cross at the windows of
the carriages. The carriages began to roll away, and the birch trees
of the great avenue filed out of sight. I was not in the least
depressed on this occasion, for my mind was not so much turned upon
what I had left as upon what was awaiting me. In proportion as the
various objects connected with the sad recollections which had
recently filled my imagination receded behind me, those recollections
lost their power, and gave place to a consolatory feeling of life,
youthful vigor, freshness, and hope. Seldom have I spent four days
more -- well, I will not say gaily, since I should still have shrunk
from appearing gay -- but more agreeably and pleasantly than those
occupied by our journey. . . .
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