Constance Garnett 
Two Friends 
And Other Stories

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. On one spring day in the forties of last century, a young man of six and twenty called Boris Andreyitch Vyazovnin arrived at his home, an estate lying in one of the provinces of the central region of Russia. He had just resigned his commission owing to domestic circumstances, and was intending to look after the management of his land. A praiseworthy idea of course, but Boris Andreyitch had taken it up, as indeed is usually the case, against his will. Every year his income had been falling off while his debts had been increasing.