Excerpt from Reminiscences of Tolstoy Ilya, the third, has never been ill in his life; broad-boned, white and pink, jovial, bad at lessons. Is always thinking about What he is told not to think about. Invents his own games. Hot-tempered and violent, '1 wants to fight at once; but is also tender-hearted and very sensi tive. Sensuous; fond of eating and lying still doing nothing. When he eats currant-jelly and buck-wheat kasha 2 his lips itch. Independent minded in everything. When he cries, is vicious and horrid at the same ...
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Excerpt from Reminiscences of Tolstoy Ilya, the third, has never been ill in his life; broad-boned, white and pink, jovial, bad at lessons. Is always thinking about What he is told not to think about. Invents his own games. Hot-tempered and violent, '1 wants to fight at once; but is also tender-hearted and very sensi tive. Sensuous; fond of eating and lying still doing nothing. When he eats currant-jelly and buck-wheat kasha 2 his lips itch. Independent minded in everything. When he cries, is vicious and horrid at the same time; when he laughs, every one laughs too. Everything forbidden delights him; he recognises it at once. When he was quite a mite he overheard some one saying that a pregnant woman feels the child moving inside her; for a long time after wards his favourite game was to put any round thing he could find under his jacket and stroke it with tense fingers, whispering with a smile This is baby.' He used to stroke all the bumps where the springs had gone wrong in the arm-chairs and furniture, murmuring Baby.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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