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 Wysłany: Wto 9:50, 22 Lut 2011 Temat postu: On the Makaloa Mat LondonJack Published bbaaajzb |
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at there
were rumours that Pyotr Stepanovitch had once professed himself
penitentand on his return had been pardoned on mentioning certain
names and soperhapshad succeeded in expiating his offenceby
promising to be of use to the government in the future. I repeated these
malignant phrases to Stepan Trofimovitchand although the latter was in
such a state that he was hardly capable of reflectionhe pondered
profoundly. It turned out later that Pyotr Stepanovitch had come to us
with a very influential letter of recommendationthat he hadat any rate
brought one to the governor's wife from a very important old lady in
Petersburgwhose husband was one of the most distinguished old
dignitaries in the capital. This old ladywho was Yulia Mihailovna's
godmothermentioned in her letter that Count K. knew Pyotr
Stepanovitch very well through Nikolay Vsyevolodovitchmade much of
himand thought him “a very excellent young man in spite of his former
errors.” Yulia Mihailovna set the greatest value on her relations with the
“higher spheres” which were few and maintained with difficultyand was
no doubtpleased to get the old lady's letterbut still there was
something peculiar about it. She even forced her husband upon a famil [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
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