Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Boyhood Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

"Again two carriages stood at the front door of the house atPetrovskoe. In one of them sat Mimi, the two girls, and theirmaid, with the bailiff, Jakoff, on the box, while in the other--abritchka--sat Woloda, myself, and our servant Vassili. Papa, who was to follow us to Moscow in a few days, was standingbareheaded on the entrance-steps. He made the sign of thecross 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 thecross."Amen. God go with us!