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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. The farther Olye'nin travelled from the centre of Russia, the more distant all his recollection seemed; the nearer he came to the Caucasus, the more light-hearted he grew. The idea of going away entirely, of never returning, of never again appearing in society, kept recurring to his mind. Now, these men whom I see here are not people; not one of them knows me and not one of them can have ever been in the same society in Moscow in which I moved, or knows about my past. And no one in that society will know what I have been doing during my life among those people. A hitherto unexampled sense of freedom from all his past life came over him, as he found himself amid all the coarse beings whom he encountered on the way and whom he did not dream of calling people in the same sense as his old acquaintances in Moscow. The rougher they were, the less they were marked by the characteristics of civilized life, the greater became his sense of freedom. Stavropol, through which he was forced to pass, vexed his spirit. The signboards, ? even signboards in French, ? the ladies in barouches, the hacks drawn up along the square, the boulevards, a gentleman in cloak and cap, who was promenading along the boulevard and staring at the passers- by, ? all had an unpleasant effect upon him. Who knows but these people know some of my acquaintances ? And again he recalls the club, the tailor, the cards, gay society. . . . After he had left Stavropol behind him, he began, therefore, to feel in a better frame of mind; it became wild, and, what was better than all, picturesque and warlike. And Olydnin's heart grew lighter and lighter. All the Cossacks, the drivers, the station-keepers, seemed to him artless beings with whom one could artlessly jest or converse, without an...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217752015 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217752012 |
| Weight | 0.64 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.44 In |
| List Price | $11.39 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 192 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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