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permission, Alexey Alexandrovitch prepared to set off to
these remote provinces.
Alexey Alexandrovitch’s departure made a great
sensation, the more so as just before he started he officially
returned the posting-fares allowed him for twelve horses,
to drive to his destination.
‘I think it very noble,’ Betsy said about this to the
Princess Myakaya. ‘Why take money for posting-horses
when everyone knows that there are railways everywhere
now?’
But Princess Myakaya did not agree, and the Princess
Tverskaya’s opinion annoyed her indeed.
‘It’s all very well for you to talk,’ said she, ‘when you
have I don’t know how many millions; but I am very glad
when my husband goes on a revising tour in the summer.
It’s very good for him and pleasant traveling about, and it’s
a settled arrangement for me to keep a carriage and
coachman on the money.’
On his way to the remote provinces Alexey
Alexandrovitch stopped for three days at Moscow.
The day after his arrival he was driving back from
calling on the governor-general. At the crossroads by
Gazetoy Place, where there are always crowds of carriages
and sledges, Alexey Alexandrovitch suddenly heard his
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