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Tonight I'll be reading the snoozy opening chapters from A House of Gentle Folk,

also known as Home of the Gentry and A Nest of the Gentry, a House of Gentle Folk, is a novel by

Ivan Turgenev, published in 1859 Russia.

It was enthusiastically received by the Russian society

and remained Turgeneves' least controversial and most widely read novel until the end of the 19th century. Let's get cozy. Close your eyes.

body into the softness of your bed.

Now, take a few deep breaths.

Chapter 1. A bright spring day was fading into evening. High overhead in the clear heavens, small rosy clouds seemed hardly to move across the sky, but to be sinking into its depths of blue.

In a handsome house in one of the outlying streets of the government town of O, it was in the

year 1842.

Two women were sitting at an open window.

One was about 50.

The other, an old lady of 70.

The name of the former was Maria Dimitrievna Callatin.

Her husband, a shrewd determined man of obstinate billuous temperament, had been dead for ten years.

He had been a provincial public prosecutor noted in his own day as a successful man of business.

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