The Long Exile part 5
“Where are you from?” asked some one.
“From Vladimir. My family are of that town. My name is Makar, and they also call me Semyonich.”
Aksionov...
The Long Exile part 4
And Aksionov wrote no more petitions; gave up all hope, and only prayed to God.
Aksionov was condemned to be flogged and sent to the...
The Long Exile part 3
The police-officer ordered the soldiers to bind Aksionov and to put him in the cart. As they tied his feet together and flung him...
The Long Exile part 2
When he had gone about twenty-five miles, he stopped for the horses to be fed. AJcsionov rested awhile in the passage of the inn,...
The Long Exile part 1
Leo Tolstoy (1828 1910)
Tolstoy is the most celebrated of all Russian writers. This extraordinary man, after serving in the army and leading a wild...
The Specter Bridegroom part 13
How long the good old lady would have observed this promise is uncertain, for she dearly loved to talk of the marvelous, and there...
The Specter Bridegroom part 12
But, whatever may have been the doubts entertained, they were completely put to an end by the arrival, next day, of regular missives confirming...
The Specter Bridegroom part 11
“What! going to leave the castle at midnight? Why, everything was prepared for his reception; a chamber was ready for him if he wished...
The Specter Bridegroom part 10
The feast went on merrily, or at least noisily, for the guests were all blessed with those keen appetites that attend upon light purses...
The Specter Bridegroom part 9
“I am sorry,” said the stranger, “to break in upon you thus unseasonably”
Here the Baron interrupted him with a world of compliments and greetings;...
