ABSTRACT
The author wants to write the letter in her own handwriting; but as she had been copying for Fiodor every day, and her handwriting was too familiar to him, she resolved to cover up her joke and began copying out the letter in a rounder handwriting than mine. She spent this summer in Pavlovsk, the author answered, and in my walks with her daughters we have been looking for the fine summer house, in the style of a Swiss chlet, in which the heroine of the novel, Aglaia Epanchin, lived. We nearly always met there my godmother Alexandra p. I whom she had stopped visiting after her marriage, because her husband, on account of his political views. When, after Fiodors death, she announced her intention of closing down the book business, many people asked her to hand it over to them; some even wished to buy it from her, and offered her fifteen hundred roubles for the good-will.
