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So passed a year, at the end of which a little incident befell Gerasim

The old lady, in whose service he lived as porter, adhered in everything to the ancient ways, and kept a large number of servants In her house were not only laundresses, sempstresses, carpenters, tailors and tailoresses, there was even a harness-eon, too,--and a doctor for the servants; there was a household doctor for the mistress; there was, lastly, a shoearded himself as an injured creature, whose , who ought not to be living in Moscoithout occupation--in the wilds, so to speak; and if he drank, as he himself expressed it emphatically, with a blow on his chest, it was sorrow drove him to it So one day his mistress had a conversation about hi solely from his little yellow eyes and nose like a duck's beak, fate itself, it seemed, had marked out as a person in authority The lady expressed her regret at the corruption of thebefore, been picked up somewhere in the street

'Now, Gavrila,' she observed, all of a sudden, 'now, if ere to marry him, what do you think, perhaps he would be steadier?'

'Why not marry him, indeed, 'm? He could be ood thing, to be sure, 'm'

'Yes; only who is to marry him?'

'Ay, 'm But that's at your pleasure, '; he can't be turned adrift altogether'

'I fancy he likes Tatiana'

Gavrila was on the point of htly

'Yes! let hi a pinch of snuff complacently, 'Do you hear?'

'Yes, ' to his own rooe, and was almost filled up with metal-bound trunks), Gavrila first sent his wife away, and then sat down at theand pondered His eot up and sent to call Kapiton Kapitontheir conversation to the reader, we consider it not out of place to relate in feords as this Tatiana, whoreat lady's order had disturbed the steward