谢尔盖神甫__Leo Tolstoy.pdf

www.ChineseA 英文名著3000 本 中文在线出品 Father Sergius by Leo Tolstoy Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude 1 www.ChineseA 英文名著3000 本 中文在线出品 I In Petersburg in the eighteen-forties a surprising event occurred. An officer of the Cuirassier Life Guards, a handsome prince who everyone predicted would become aide-de-camp to the Emperor Nicholas I and have a brilliant career, left the service,broke off his engagement to a beautiful maid of honour, a favourite of the Empresss, gave his small estate to his sister,and retired to a monastery to become a monk. This event appeared extraordinary and inexplicable to those who did not know his inner motives, but for Prince Stepan Kasatsky himself it all occurred so naturally that he could not imagine how he could have acted otherwise. His father, a retired colonel of the Guards, had died when Stepan was twelve, and sorry as his mother was to part 2 www.ChineseA 英文名著3000 本 中文在线出品 from her son, she entered him at the Military College as her deceased husband had intended. The widow herself, with her daughter, Varvara, moved to Petersburg to be near her son and have him with her for the holidays. The boy was distinguished both by his brilliant ability and by his immense self-esteem. He was first both in his studies--especially in mathematics, of which he was particularly fond--and also in drill and in riding. Though of more than average height, he was handsome and agile, and he would have been an altogether