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The Rendezvous, by Ivan Turgenev
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Title: The Rendezvous 1907
Author: Ivan Turgenev
Translator: Herman Bernstein
Release Date: October 17, 2007 [EBook #23056]
Language: English
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THE RENDEZVOUS
By Ivan Turgenev
Translated by Herman Bernstein.
Copyright, 1907, by P. P. Collier & Son.
I was sitting in a birch grove in autumn, near the middle of September. It had been drizzling ever since morning; occasionally the sun shone warmly;--the weather was changeable. Now the sky was overcast with watery white clouds, now it suddenly cleared up for an instant, and then the bright, soft azure, like a beautiful eye, appeared from beyond the dispersed clouds. I was sitting looking about me and listening. The leaves were slightly rustling over my head; and by their very rustle one could tell what season of the year it was. It was not the gay, laughing palpitation of spring; not a soft whispering, nor the lingering chatter of summer, nor the timid and cold lisping of late autumn, but a barely audible, drowsy prattle. A faint breeze was whisking over the tree-tops. The interior of the grove, moist from the rain, was forever changing, as the sun shone or hid beyond the clouds; now the grove was all illumina