The Brigadier: And Other Stories ; On the Eve / Iván Turgénieff ; Translated ...
The Brigadier: And Other Stories ; On the Eve / Iván Turgénieff ; Translated ...
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Isabel Florence Hapgood
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" and that uncontrolla- ble, uninterrupted flight of time, of life. ... It all ended with a thunder-clap, and I was fated not to hear from my mother's lips not only those words which would have dispelled our secret, but even the ordinary words of farewell which precede death! All that remains in my memory is the exclamation of Mr. Ratsch : ^^ Su- sanna Ivdnovna, please come hither ; your mother wishes to give you her blessing !'' and then the pallid hand from beneath the heavy coverlet, the tor...tured breathing, the rolled-up eyes . . . Oh, enough, enough ! On the following day, and on the day of the fu- neral . . with what horror, with what indignation, with what painful curiosity did I gaze upon the face of my father .... yes, of my father. His letters had been found in her casket. It seemed to me that he had turned a little pale and had grown thin .... but no! No- 168 A HAPLESS GIRL thing stirred in that petrified soul ! Exactly as of yore, he summoned me to his study, after the lapse of a week ; in exactly the same voice did he request me to read : ** Si vous vaulez bien^ les observations sur Vhistoire de France^ de Mablffi i la page 74 .
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