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by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin (Author), Marie H. de Zielinska (Translator) "My father, Andrew Peter Grineff, having served in his youth under Count Munich, left the army in 17-, with the grade of First Major ..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 124 pages
  • Publisher: Wildside Press (1 Aug 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 159224582X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1592245826
  • Product Dimensions: 23.7 x 16.3 x 1.5 cm
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Our laundress, a fat girl all scarred by smallpox, and our dairy maid, who was blind of an eye, agreed, one fine day, to throw themselves at my mother's feet and accuse the Frenchman of trifling with their innocence and inexperience! My mother would have no jesting upon this point, and she in turn complained to my father, who, like a man of business, promptly ordered "that dog of a Frenchman" into his presence. The servant informed him meekly that Beaupre was at the moment engaged in giving me a lesson. My father rushed to my room. Beaupre was sleeping upon his bed the sleep of innocence. I was deep in a most interesting occupation. They had brought from Moscow, for me, a geographical map, which hung unused against the wall; the width and strength of its paper had been to me a standing temptation. I had determined to make a kite of it, and profiting that morning by Beaupre's sleep, I had set to work. My father came in just as I was tying a tail to the Cape of Good Hope! Seeing my work, he seized me by the ear and shook me soundly; then rushing to Beaupre's bed, awakened him without hesitating, pouring forth a volley of abuse upon the head of the unfortunate Frenchman.

In his confusion Beaupre tried in vain to rise; the poor pedagogue was dead drunk! My father caught him by the coat-collar and flung him out of the room. That day he was dismissed, to the inexpressible delight of Saveliitch. Thus ended my education...

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