Poor Folk - Fyodor Dostoevsky (i like reading books .txt) 📗

now. She would suit him far better and for reasons which I well know. Then I could keep you. For what is he to you, this Monsieur Bwikov? Why has he suddenly become so dear to your heart? Is it because he can buy you gewgaws? What are they? What use are they? They are so much rubbish. One should consider human life rather than mere finery. Nevertheless, as soon as I have received my next instalment of salary I mean to buy you a new cloak. I mean to buy it at a shop with which I am acquainted. Only, you must wait until my next instalment is due, my angel of a Barbara. Ah, God, my God! To think that you are going away into the Steppes with Monsieur Bwikov⁠—that you are going away never to return!⁠ ⁠… Nay, nay, but you shall write to me. You shall write me a letter as soon as you have started, even if it be your last letter of all, my dearest. Yet will it be your last letter? How has it come about so suddenly, so irrevocably, that this letter should be your last? Nay, nay; I will write, and you shall write⁠—yes, now, when at length I am beginning to improve my style. Style? I do not know what I am writing. I never do know what I am writing. I could not possibly know, for I never read over what I have written, nor correct its orthography. At the present moment, I am writing merely for the sake of writing, and to put as much as possible into this last letter of mine.⁠ ⁠…

Ah, dearest, my pet, my own darling!⁠ ⁠…

Endnotes

Mr. ↩

A quarter of St. Petersburg. ↩

Secondary school. ↩

Tea-urn. ↩

Colophon

Poor Folk
was published in 1846 by
Fyodor Dostoevsky.
It was translated from Russian in 1915 by
C. J. Hogarth.

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Life Is Everywhere,
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