About this story
Your father meets you at the posting station, apologises for his own emotion, and on the road home admits there is now a woman and an infant living in the smaller wing. On the steps your uncle Pavel takes one look at Bazarov's ungloved hands. Dinner is served at a table already divided into sides.
Who you’ll meet
Yevgeny Bazarov, the medical student you brought home with you, at the foot of the steps of Maryino with your uncle Pavel above him and your father Nikolai anxiously between them.
How it opens
Your father's carriage waited beside a posting station whitened by road dust.
Nikolai Kirsanov paced between the horses and consulted his watch without reading it.
Nikolai KirsanovArkasha, you are thinner, older, and entirely here at last.
Father, this is my great friend Yevgeny Bazarov.
A medical student, if titles make arrival easier.
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Bazarov has taught me to question everything.
We hoped you might let him stay at Maryino.