A Landlord's Morning

"Prince Nekhlyudov was nineteen when, from his third year at university, he came to his village for the summer vacations and stayed there the whole summer. In the autumn, with an unsteady childish hand, he wrote to his aunt, Countess Beloretskaya, whom—according to his understanding—he considered his best friend and the most brilliant woman in the world… the next French letter translated here…"