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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
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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
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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
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