An Unhappy Girl was published in 1868, translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett. [Painting by Valentin Serov, Girl with Peaches, 1887.]
"Yes, yes, began Piotr Gavrilovitch; those were painful days... and I would rather not recall them.... But I have made you a promise; I shall have to tell you the whole story. Listen."
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