I. A SLOW JOURNEY
Again two carriages stood at the front door of the house at Petrovskoe. In one of them sat Mimi the two girls and their maid with the bailiff Jakoff on the box while in the other--a britchka--sat Woloda myself and our servant Vassili. Papa who was to follow us to Moscow in a few days was standing bareheaded on the entrance-steps. He made the sign of the cross at the windows of the carriages and said:
"Christ go with you! Good-bye."
Jakoff and our coachman (for we had our own horses) lifted their caps in answer and also made the sign of the cross."Amen. God go with us!"