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The priest recited certain prayers and injunc tions to which the principals paid scant attention and, the ceremony ended, all sat down to dinner. At this function there were many servants, serfs of the estate, to wait upon the feasters the food was good and plentiful, but badly cooked, the wine plentiful also, but indifferent, and the plates and dishes were filthy. Civilisation had not as yet reached a high standard in the Russia of that day, when, even in the best houses, though the furniture might be gorgeously gilt, it stood in dust and dirt; where men and women-servants slept in the passages which were not aired during the day; where there were no arrangements for personal ablutions, and ventilation and sanitation were arts as yet undiscovered and undreamed of.
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- PublisherForgotten Books
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 1330921216
- ISBN 13 9781330921210
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages298
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