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THE NOVELS AND STORIES OF IVÁN TURGÉNIEFF
Published by CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
	RÚDIN, AND A KING LEAR OF THE STEPPES A NOBLEMAN'S NEST ON THE EVE FATHERS AND CHILDREN SMOKE VIRGIN SOIL MEMOIRS OF A SPORTSMAN THE JEW, AND OTHER STORIES DIARY OF A SUPERFLUOUS MAN, AND OTHER     STORIES FIRST LOVE, AND OTHER STORIES PHANTOMS, AND OTHER STORIES THE BRIGADIER, AND OTHER STORIES SPRING FRESHETS, AND OTHER STORIES RECKLESS CHARACTER, AND OTHER STORIES

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The brilliant, spring day was incliningtoward the evening, tiny rose-tinted cloudletshung high in the heavens, and seemed not tobe floating past, but retreating into the verydepths of the azure.

In front of the open window of a handsomehouse, in one of the outlying streets of O * * * the capital of a Government, sat two women; onefifty years of age, the other seventy years old, andalready aged.

The former was named Márya DmítrievnaKalítin. Her husband, formerly the governmentalprocurator, well known in his day as anactive official—a man of energetic and decidedcharacter, splenetic and stubborn—had died tenyears previously. He had received a fairly goodeducation, had studied at the university, but, havingbeen born in a poverty-stricken class of society,he had early comprehended the necessityof opening up a way for himself, and of accumulatingmoney. Márya Dmítrievna had married4him for lo

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