The Tryst
Author: Ivan Turgenev
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Languages: RU, English, Japanese
Genre: Historical, Romance, Short story
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A hunter in a birch wood watches a peasant girl's last meeting with the valet who abandons her.
Characters
- Akulina — a peasant girl, an orphan: A girl in love who comes to say goodbye and begs in vain for one kind word.
- Viktor Alexandritch — a young gentleman's valet: A pampered dandy with an eye-glass who leaves with his master and coolly abandons Akulina.
- the narrator — a hunter and unwilling witness: A hunter asleep in the birch wood who watches the meeting and carries off her cornflowers.