Resurrection (Translated by Rosemary Edmonds 1966) by Leo Tolstoy

Author:Leo Tolstoy [Tolstoy, Leo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature
ISBN: 9780141917085
Publisher: Penguin Books; Penguin Random House
Published: 1899-01-01T16:00:00+00:00

‘There’s an artful dodger for you!’ a black-haired peasant with an unkempt beard, who sat swaying on his well-fed mare, said to a lean old man in a torn tunic riding by his side, his horse’s iron hobbles clanking.

The pair were on their way to pasture their horses for the night by the roadside, or, if they got a chance, in the forest belonging to the estate.

‘“I’ll let you have the land for nothing if you’ll just sign!” Haven’t they fooled the likes of us often enough? No, my friend, you won’t catch us, nowadays we know a thing or two ourselves,’ he added, and began calling a colt that had fallen behind. He stopped and looked back, but the colt had not remained behind – it had gone into the meadow by the roadside.

‘Curse the little devil! Taken a liking to the master’s fields,’ said the black-haired peasant with the unkempt beard, hearing the snapping of sorrel stalks as the whinnying colt galloped across the sweet-smelling, swampy meadow.

‘Just listen to that – the meadow’s all overgrown. We shall have to send the women out one Sunday to do a bit of weeding,’ said the thin peasant in the torn tunic. ‘Else we’ll be ruining our scythes.’

‘“Just sign,” he says,’ the peasant with the shaggy beard continued on the subject of his master’s address. ‘Sign, indeed, and let ’im swaller yer alive!’

‘That’s sure,’ replied the old man.

And they said no more. The only sound was the clopping of the horses’ hooves on the hard road.

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