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were rumours that Pyotr Stepanovitch had once professed himself penitentand on his return had been pardoned on mentioning certain names and soperhapshad succeeded in expiating his offenceby promising to be of use to the government in the future. I repeated these malignant phrases to Stepan Trofimovitchand although the latter was in such a state that he was hardly capable of reflectionhe pondered profoundly. It turned out later that Pyotr Stepanovitch had come to us with a very influential letter of recommendationthat he hadat any rate brought one to the governor's wife from a very important old lady in Petersburgwhose husband was one of the most distinguished old dignitaries in the capital. This old ladywho was Yulia Mihailovna's godmothermentioned in her letter that Count K. knew Pyotr Stepanovitch very well through Nikolay Vsyevolodovitchmade much of himand thought him “a very excellent young man in spite of his former errors.” Yulia Mihailovna set the greatest value on her relations with the “higher spheres” which were few and maintained with difficultyand was no doubtpleased to get the old lady's letterbut still there was something peculiar about it. She even forced her husband upon a famil skechers mary janes |
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