MZANSI AND UNAJIMU

XI My father used every day to ride out on horse-back. He had a splendid English mare, a chestnut piebald, with a long slender neck and long...

X My mother next day announced her intention of returning to the town. In the morning my father had gone into her bedroom, and stayed there ...

XIX I should be in a great difficulty, if I were forced to describe exactly what passed within me in the course of the week after my unsucce...

XVIII I got up in the morning with a headache. My emotion of the previous day had vanished. It was replaced by a dreary sense of blankness a...

XVII The following day I only had a passing glimpse of Zinaïda: she was driving somewhere with the old princess in a cab. But I saw Lushin, ...

XVI After dinner the usual party assembled again at the lodge, and the young princess came out to them. All were there in full force, just a...

XV For the next five or six days I hardly saw Zinaïda; she said she was ill, which did not, however, prevent the usual visitors from calling...

XIV The next day I got up early, cut myself a stick, and set off beyond the town-gates. I thought I would walk off my sorrow. It was a lovel...

XIII I was so proud and light-hearted all that day, I so vividly retained on my face the feeling of Zinaïda’s kisses, with such a shudder of...

XII The days passed by. Zinaïda became stranger and stranger, and more and more incomprehensible. One day I went over to her, and saw her si...

XI On the evening of the same day the usual guests were assembled at the Zasyekins’. I was among them. The conversation turned on Meidanov’s...

X My real torments began from that instant. I racked my brains, changed my mind, and changed it back again, and kept an unremitting, though,...

VIII The next morning, when I came down to tea, my mother scolded me – less severely, however, than I had expected – and made me tell her ho...

VII At eight o’clock precisely, in my tail-coat and with my hair brushed up into a tuft on my head, I entered the passage of the lodge, wher...