apropos of Turgenieff's daughter. Turgenieff, in a fit of nerves,
threatened to box his ears. Tolstoy challenged him to a duel, and
Turgenieff apologized.]
[Footnote 18: Turgenieff was ten years older than Tolstoy.]
[Footnote 19: I had written to my father that my fiancee's mother would
not let me marry for two years.]
[Footnote 20: My father took Griboyehof's PRINCESS MARYA ALEXEVNA as
a type. The allusion here is to the last words of Griboyehof's famous
comedy, "The Misfortune of Cleverness," "What will PRINCESS MARYA
ALEXEVNA say?"]
[Footnote 21: Be loved by them.]
[Footnote 22: His wife's.]
[Footnote 23: A novelist, died 1895.]
[Footnote 24: One of the authors of "Junker Schmidt."]
[Footnote 25: The curious may be disposed to trace to some such
"corrections beforehand" the remarkable discrepancy of style and matter
which distinguishes some of Tolstoy's later works, published after his
death by Mr. Tchertkof and his literary executors.]
[Footnote 26: Tolstoy's private secretary, arrested and banished in
1908.]
[Footnote 27: Five weeks after Leskof's death.]
[Footnote 28: The Countess Tolstoy.]
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