Pesotsky had an immense house with columns and lions, off which the stucco was peeling, and with a footman in swallow-tails at the entrance. To drive along a soft road in May in a comfortable carriage with springs was a real pleasure. The distance from Kovrinka to Borissovka was reckoned only a little over fifty miles. To begin with - that was in April - he went to his own home, Kovrinka, and there spent three weeks in solitude then, as soon as the roads were in good condition, he set off, driving in a carriage, to visit Pesotsky, his former guardian, who had brought him up, and was a horticulturist well known all over Russia. And he made up his mind that he really must go. Very opportunely a long letter came from Tanya Pesotsky, who asked him to come and stay with them at Borissovka. He did not send for a doctor, but casually, over a bottle of wine, he spoke to a friend who was a doctor, and the latter advised him to spend the spring and summer in the country. ANDREY VASSILITCH KOVRIN, who held a master's degree at the University, had exhausted himself, and had upset his nerves.
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