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On
the
fifteenth
,
the
day
of
the
old
prince
's
death
,
the
Marshal
had
insisted
on
Princess
Mary
's
leaving
at
once
,
as
it
was
becoming
dangerous
.
He
had
told
her
that
after
the
sixteenth
he
could
not
be
responsible
for
what
might
happen
.
On
the
evening
of
the
day
the
old
prince
died
the
Marshal
went
away
,
promising
to
return
next
day
for
the
funeral
.
But
this
he
was
unable
to
do
,
for
he
received
tidings
that
the
French
had
unexpectedly
advanced
,
and
had
barely
time
to
remove
his
own
family
and
valuables
from
his
estate
.
For
some
thirty
years
Boguchárovo
had
been
managed
by
the
village
Elder
,
Dron
,
whom
the
old
prince
called
by
the
diminutive
"
Drónushka
.
"
Dron
was
one
of
those
physically
and
mentally
vigorous
peasants
who
grow
big
beards
as
soon
as
they
are
of
age
and
go
on
unchanged
till
they
are
sixty
or
seventy
,
without
a
gray
hair
or
the
loss
of
a
tooth
,
as
straight
and
strong
at
sixty
as
at
thirty
.
Soon
after
the
migration
to
the
"
warm
rivers
,
"
in
which
he
had
taken
part
like
the
rest
,
Dron
was
made
village
Elder
and
overseer
of
Boguchárovo
,
and
had
since
filled
that
post
irreproachably
for
twenty-three
years
.
The
peasants
feared
him
more
than
they
did
their
master
.
The
masters
,
both
the
old
prince
and
the
young
,
and
the
steward
respected
him
and
jestingly
called
him
"
the
Minister
.
"
During
the
whole
time
of
his
service
Dron
had
never
been
drunk
or
ill
,
never
after
sleepless
nights
or
the
hardest
tasks
had
he
shown
the
least
fatigue
,
and
though
he
could
not
read
he
had
never
forgotten
a
single
money
account
or
the
number
of
quarters
of
flour
in
any
of
the
endless
cartloads
he
sold
for
the
prince
,
nor
a
single
shock
of
the
whole
corn
crop
on
any
single
acre
of
the
Boguchárovo
fields
.
Alpátych
,
arriving
from
the
devastated
Bald
Hills
estate
,
sent
for
his
Dron
on
the
day
of
the
prince
's
funeral
and
told
him
to
have
twelve
horses
got
ready
for
the
princess
'
carriages
and
eighteen
carts
for
the
things
to
be
removed
from
Boguchárovo
.
Though
the
peasants
paid
quitrent
,
Alpátych
thought
no
difficulty
would
be
made
about
complying
with
this
order
,
for
there
were
two
hundred
and
thirty
households
at
work
in
Boguchárovo
and
the
peasants
were
well
to
do
.
But
on
hearing
the
order
Dron
lowered
his
eyes
and
remained
silent
.
Alpátych
named
certain
peasants
he
knew
,
from
whom
he
told
him
to
take
the
carts
.
Dron
replied
that
the
horses
of
these
peasants
were
away
carting
.
Alpátych
named
others
,
but
they
too
,
according
to
Dron
,
had
no
horses
available
:
some
horses
were
carting
for
the
government
,
others
were
too
weak
,
and
others
had
died
for
want
of
fodder
.
It
seemed
that
no
horses
could
be
had
even
for
the
carriages
,
much
less
for
the
carting
.
Alpátych
looked
intently
at
Dron
and
frowned
.
Just
as
Dron
was
a
model
village
Elder
,
so
Alpátych
had
not
managed
the
prince
's
estates
for
twenty
years
in
vain
.
He
was
a
model
steward
,
possessing
in
the
highest
degree
the
faculty
of
divining
the
needs
and
instincts
of
those
he
dealt
with
.
Having
glanced
at
Dron
he
at
once
understood
that
his
answers
did
not
express
his
personal
views
but
the
general
mood
of
the
Boguchárovo
commune
,
by
which
the
Elder
had
already
been
carried
away
.
But
he
also
knew
that
Dron
,
who
had
acquired
property
and
was
hated
by
the
commune
,
must
be
hesitating
between
the
two
camps
:
the
masters
'
and
the
serfs
'
.
He
noticed
this
hesitation
in
Dron
's
look
and
therefore
frowned
and
moved
closer
up
to
him
.
"
Now
just
listen
,
Drónushka
,
"
said
he
.
"
Do
n't
talk
nonsense
to
me
.
His
excellency
Prince
Andrew
himself
gave
me
orders
to
move
all
the
people
away
and
not
leave
them
with
the
enemy
,
and
there
is
an
order
from
the
Tsar
about
it
too
.
Anyone
who
stays
is
a
traitor
to
the
Tsar
.
Do
you
hear
?
"
