The Two Friends and Other Stories Author:Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THREE MEETINGS Passa que' colli e vieni allegranjente, Npn ti curar di tanta compania— Vieni, pensando a me segretamente— Ch'io t'accompagna per tutta la via.... more » There was nowhere I used to go so often to shoot in the summer as to the village of Glin- noye, which was fifteen miles from my own estate. Perhaps the best place for game in our whole district was near that village. After going through all the surrounding thickets and fields, towards the end of the day I invariably turned into a marsh close by, the only one in the neighbourhood, and from there went back to my hospitable host, the elder of the village, ...with whom I always used to put up for the night. From the marsh to Glinnoye it is not more than a mile and a half. The road runs by the valley, except that halfway one has to climb a small hill. On the top of that hill lies a homestead consisting of a small, uninhabited manor-house and garden. It almost always happened to me to pass by it in the full glow of the sunset and I remember that this house with its nailed-up windows reminded me of a blind old man who has come out to warm himself in the sun. He sits, poor dear, close to the road. The light of the sun has long ago passed into unchanging darkness for him but he feels it on his raised and outstretched face and on his warmed cheeks. It seemed as though no one had lived in the house itself for years; but in the tiny lodge in the garden there was a decrepit house-serf who had received his freedom, a tall, stooping, grey-headed old man with an expressive and immobile face. He was always sitting on a little bench in front of the one little window in the lodge, looking with mournful dreaminess into the distance, and on seeing me he would rise a little from his seat and bow with the deliberate dignity that distingu...« less