CHAPTER 20
TO A. N. PLESHTCHEYEV
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SUMY,
June 28, 1888.
June 28, 1888.
. We have been to the province of Poltava. We went to the Smagins', and to Sorotchintsi. We drove with a four-in-hand, in an ancestral, very comfortable carriage. We had no end of laughter, adventures, misunderstandings, halts, and meetings on the way. If you had only seen the places where we stayed the night and the villages stretching eight or ten versts through which we drove!. What weddings we met on the road, what lovely music we heard in the evening stillness, and what a heavy smell of fresh hay there was! Really one might sell one's soul to the devil for the pleasure of looking at the warm evening sky, the pools and the rivulets reflecting the sad, languid sunset.