It is not worth while to say much about Lizavéta Prókhorovna: she is alive to this day, and as often happens with people of that sort, she has not changed in the least; she has not even aged much, but only seems to have grown more lean; moreover, her penuriousness has increased to an extreme degree, although it is difficult to understand for whom she is always hoarding, since she has no children, and is related to no one. In conversation she frequently alludes to Akím, and avers that ever since she discovered all his fine qualities, she has come to cherish a great respect for the Russian peasant. Kiríllovna has purchased her freedom from Lizavéta Prókhorovna for a considerable sum and has married, for love, some fair-haired young butler or other, at whose hands she endures bitter torture; Avdótya is living, as of yore, in the woman's wing of Lizavéta Prókhorovna's house, but has descended several rungs lower, dresses very poorly, almost filthily, and retains not a trace of the cityfied affectations of the fashionable maid, or the habits of a well-to-do landlady.... No one takes any notice of her, and she herself is glad that they do not; old Petróvitch is dead, but Akím is still roving on pilgrimages--and God alone knows how much longer he is destined to wander! FOOTNOTES: [32] Leipzig. [33] A _desyatína_ is 2.70 acres. He was obliged to buy the land in his owner's name: serfs could not hold landed property.--TRANSLATOR. [34] St. Petersburg.--TRANSLATOR. [35] To the holy pictures.--TRANSLATOR. [36] See note on p. 273.--TRANSLATOR. [37] He had been a staff-officer in the civil service, according to Peter the Great's Table of Ranks.--TRANSLATOR. [38] These numerous maids, in the old serf days, were employed in making the most exquisite linen, lace, embroidery, and so forth.--TRANSLATOR. [39] The beard was regarded as a mark of peasant origin.--TRANSLATOR. [40] Neither field-serfs nor the superior house-serfs were addressed by their patronymic (like the nobility). Dunyásha is the diminutive of Avdóty.--TRANSLATOR. [41] It is customary to have a holy picture, with a shrine-lamp filled with olive-oil burning before it, in bedrooms.--TRANSLATOR. [42] The difference in value between paper and silver money was considerable in those days, and the sort of currency is generally specified.--TRANSLATOR. [43] In Russian: "Berries from the same field."--TRANSLATOR. [44] In Russian: "If you are fond of sleighing, then be fond also of dragging the sledge."--TRANSLATOR.