The Works of Ivan Turgenieff

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Excerpt from The Works of Ivan Turgenieff: First Love, and Other Stories; The Jew

Then what are we to do? -began the host. There was nothing very startling about my first love either; I never fell in love with any one before Anna Ivanovna, now my wife; and every thing ran as though on oil with us; our fathers made up the match, we very promptly fell in love with each other, and entered the bonds of matri mony without delay. My story can be told in two words. I must confess, gentlemen, that in rais ing the question of first love, I set my hopes on you, I will not say old, but yet no longer young bachelors. Will not you divert us with some thing, Vladimir Petrovitch?

My first love belongs, as a matter of fact, not altogether to the ordinary category, - replied, with a slight hesitation, Vladimir Petrovitch, a man of forty, whose black hair was sprinkled with grey.

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