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… picturesque horses and sparkling gleam of glass, drives all at once and unexpectedly past some wretched and overgrown little village, which has never beheld anything but a country telyéga; and the muzhiks stand for a long time, with gaping mouths, and without putting on their caps, although the wondrous equipage has long since rolled on, and disappeared from sight.” (2)

“Everywhere, at least once, man encounters in his path some apparition which is unlike anything which it has been his lot to behold hitherto, which, at least once, awakens in him emotions which it has not been his lot to feel all through his life. Everywhere, athwart whatever sorrows, of those from which our life is woven, a glittering joy flits, as at times a glittering equipage with gilded trappings, with (1)