The Resurrection
CHAPTER VII.
Finally Matvei Nikitich arrived, and the usher, a long-necked and lean man, with a sideling gait and protruding lower lip, entered the jury-room.
The usher was an honest man, with a university education, but he could not hold any employment on account of his tippling habit. A countess, his wife's patroness, had obtained him his present position three months ago; he still retained it, and was exceedingly glad.
"Are you all here, gentlemen?" he asked, putting on his pince-nez and looking through it.
"I think so," said the cheerful merchant.
"Let us see," said the usher, and drawing a sheet of paper from his pocket, began to call the names of the jury, looking at those that responded to their names now through his pince-nez, now over it.
"Counsilor of State E. M. Nikiforoff."
"Here," said the portly gentleman, who was familiar with all the litigations.
"Retired Colonel I...
Childhood, by Leo Tolstoy
CHILDHOOD
By Leo Tolstoy
Translated by C.J. Hogarth
CONTENTS
I THE TUTOR, KARL
IVANITCH II MAMMA
III PAPA IV LESSONS V THE IDIOT VI PREPARATIONS FOR THE CHASE
VII THE HUNT
VIII WE PLAY
GAMES IX A FIRST
ESSAY IN LOVE X
THE SORT OF MAN MY FATHER WAS XI
IN THE DRAWING-ROOM AND THE STUDY XII (From : Gutenberg.org.)
This letter appears in Anarchy Archives with the permission of the Emma Goldman Papers Project, U.C. Berkeley.
16. letter: Goldman, Emma to Dreiser, Theodore, Jun 29, 1927
Return address:
683 Spadina Ave.,
Toronto, Ont.
Delivery address:
200 West 57th St.,
New York, N.Y.
Dear Theodore Dreiser:-
They say that confession is good for the heart so I am going to confess to you that I was very disappointed and sad not having heard from you since we parted in Paris. I knew of course that you must be very busy, still I had hoped that you would drop me a line as to you success in approaching the publishers but you did not write so I concluded that you must have forgotten me. Imagine then the joy when I received a letter which y... (From : Anarchy Archives.)
"WORK WHILE IT IS DAY; THE NIGHT COMETH WHEN NO MAN CAN WORK."
The time was Spring and the man's heart was glad within him at the thought of his garden and of the flowers which he would plant there and the seeds be would sown. And he rose in the morning and the sun laughed through the fleecy clouds and soft showers that kissed the breast of the fruitful earth.
In the orchard among the blossomed fruit trees the birds were making love. The whole world laughed to sea itself so beautiful.
A morning of sunlight and soft airs and hope and promise.
Who could work on such a morning?
So the man said: "I will walk with my beloved between the green hedges and gather the primroses and violets, and I can think and... (From : AnarchyArchives.)