The Idiot
Gece Kitaplığı Yayınları
The lady of the house appeared to be a woman of about fifty years of age thin faced and with black lines under the eyes She looked ill and rather sad but her face was a pleasant one for all that and from the first word that fell from her lips any stranger would at once conclude that she was of a serious and particularly sincere nature In spite of her sorrowful expression she gave the idea of possessing considerable firmness and decision
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The prince had been left an orphan when quite a little child and Pavlicheff had entrusted him to an old lady a relative of his own living in the country the child needing the fresh air and exercise of country life He was educated first by a governess and afterwards by a tutor but could not remember much about this time of his life His fits were so frequent then that they made almost an idiot of him the prince used the expression ldquo idiotrdquo himself Pavlicheff had met Professor Schneider in Berlin and the latter had persuaded him to send the boy to Switzerland to Schneiders establishment there for the cure of his epilepsy and five years before this time the prince was sent off But Pavlicheff had died two or three years since and Schneider had himself supported the young fellow from that day to this at his own expense Although he had not quite cured him he had greatly improved his condition and now at last at the princes own desire and because of a certain matter which came to the ears of the latter Schneider had despatched the young man to Russia
