Master and Man

MASTER AND MAN

By Leo Tolstoy

Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude

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It happened in the ‘seventies in winter, on the day after St. Nicholas’s Day. There was a fete in the parish and the innkeeper, Vasili Andreevich Brekhunov, a Second Guild merchant, being a church elder had to go to church, and had also to entertain his relatives and friends at home.

But when ...