Subject:  MSR Fathers and Sons
Author:  Ivan Turgenev
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Date:  10/25/2002

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Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev translated by Richard Hare


"WELL, PYOTR, STILL NOT IN SIGHT?" WAS THE QUESTION ASKED ON 20th May,
1859, by a gentleman of about forty, wearing a dusty overcoat and
checked trousers, who came out hatless into the low porch of the
posting station at X. He was speaking to his servant, a chubby young
fellow with whitish down growing on his chin and with dim little eyes.

The servant, in whom everything--the turquoise ring in his ear, the
hair plastered down with grease and the polite flexibility of his
movements--indicated a man of the new improved generation, glanced
condescendingly along the road and answered, "No, sir, definitely not
in sight."

"Not in sight?" repeated his master.

"No, sir," replied the servant again.

His master sighed and sat down on a little bench.  We will introduce
him to the reader while he sits, with his feet tucked in, looking
thoughtfully around.

His name was Nikolai Petrovich Kirsanov.