Short Fiction, Fyodor Sologub [most popular novels of all time .txt] 📗

round. He mingled with the cloudlets of dust gamboling in the sunbeams. He disappeared.

All search was in vain. Saranin could nowhere be found.

Aglaya, Strigal and Co., the police, the clergy, the authorities⁠—all were in the greatest perplexity.

How was the disappearance of Saranin to be formulated?

At last, after communication with the Academy of Sciences, they decided to reckon him as dispatched on a special mission for scientific purposes.

Then they forgot about him.

Saranin was finished with.

Endnotes

In collaboration with Anastasya Chebotarevskaya. —⁠J. C. ↩

Means “gentlewoman,” and is a common form of salutation from servant to mistress. —⁠J. C. ↩

Literally: “Little mother⁠—gentlewoman.” —⁠J. C. ↩

Little nurse. —⁠J. C. ↩

Gentlewoman. —⁠J. C. ↩

Grandmother. —⁠J. C. ↩

Mother. —⁠J. C. ↩

An abbot. —⁠J. C. ↩

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Short Fiction
was compiled from short stories published between 1904 and 1911 by
Fyodor Sologub.
They were translated from Russian between 1915 and 1919 by
John Cournos, Stephen Graham, Rosa Savory Graham and P. Selver.

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