Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 224W. Blackwood, 1928 |
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Pagina 643
... Marfa Karpovna , Zakhari's elder sister , who was the wife of the village headman at Yavina , and was one of those women who have a way of arranging things for other people . Not that Marfa was a tyrant or even a busybody ; she merely ...
... Marfa Karpovna , Zakhari's elder sister , who was the wife of the village headman at Yavina , and was one of those women who have a way of arranging things for other people . Not that Marfa was a tyrant or even a busybody ; she merely ...
Pagina 644
... Marfa ; and if it was left to Zakhari himself , or even her husband Vasili , the boy would never get married . So Yéléna it clearly must be and a very good choice too , for she was young and strong and comely , and seemed to have a mind ...
... Marfa ; and if it was left to Zakhari himself , or even her husband Vasili , the boy would never get married . So Yéléna it clearly must be and a very good choice too , for she was young and strong and comely , and seemed to have a mind ...
Pagina 648
... Marfa , with her little seven- year - old daughter , received us , and ushered us into the living- room . Here , after establishing us on chairs and placing the lighted samovar on the table , she left us to retire to the kitchen ...
... Marfa , with her little seven- year - old daughter , received us , and ushered us into the living- room . Here , after establishing us on chairs and placing the lighted samovar on the table , she left us to retire to the kitchen ...
Pagina 649
... Marfa's active mind formed a very necessary com- plement to her husband's pecu- liarly dull one ; and my own opinion is that when the vil- lagers elected him to this post , they were really - though per- haps unconsciously - electing Marfa ...
... Marfa's active mind formed a very necessary com- plement to her husband's pecu- liarly dull one ; and my own opinion is that when the vil- lagers elected him to this post , they were really - though per- haps unconsciously - electing Marfa ...
Pagina 650
... Marfa's zestful Marfa disappeared into the anticipation . It was what passed amongst these good simple folk for vodka - no worse , perhaps , than the Osaka whisky that the Japanese kept for the special delectation of the strazhniki , 1 ...
... Marfa's zestful Marfa disappeared into the anticipation . It was what passed amongst these good simple folk for vodka - no worse , perhaps , than the Osaka whisky that the Japanese kept for the special delectation of the strazhniki , 1 ...
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