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She ran into the passage in her terror, but, on recovering herself a little, wished to help Peter. In vain! The door had slammed...

He sat in the cottage as though nailed to the spot, with the sacks of gold at his feet. He grew averse to look...

Say, if you can, that people only imagine things! A month had not passed, and no one would have recognized Peter. He sat in...

A wedding in the olden times was not like one of the present day. My grandfather`s aunt used to tell how the maidens in...

“What did you promise for the girl?” thundered Basavriuk; and like a shot he was on his back. The witch stamped her foot; a...

Then he parted the thorn-bushes with a knotty stick, and before him stood a tiny farmhouse. Basavriuk smote it with his fist, and the...

“Do you see before you three hillocks? There are a great many kinds of flowers upon them. May some power keep you from plucking...

My late grandfather`s aunt was somewhat surprised at seeing Peter at the tavern, at an hour when good men go to morning mass; and...

Recovering himself, he took his grandfather`s hunting whip from the wall, and was about to belabor Peter`s back with it, when Pidorka`s little six-year-old...

She said that his father had been in Zaporozhe, and had been taken prisoner by the Turks, amongst whom he underwent God only knows...