Master And Man 主与奴 原版英文小说
It happened in the \'seventies in winter, on the day after St. Nicholas\'sDay. There was a fete in the parish and the innkeeper, Vasili AndreevichBrekhunov, a Second Guild merchant, being a church elder had to go tochurch, and had also to entertain his relatives and friends at home.
　　But when the last of them had gone he at once began to prepare todrive over to see a neighbouring proprietor about a grove which he hadbeen bargaining over for a long time. He was now in a hurry to start, lestbuyers from the town might forestall him in making a profitablepurchase.