Chapter 23: July 27th: My Dearest Makar Alexievitch

July 27th: My Dearest Makar Alexievitch July 27th. My dearest Makar Alexievitch—Your latest conduct and letters had frightened me, and left me thunderstruck and plunged in doubt, until what you have said about Thedor explained the situation. Why despair and go into such frenzies, Makar Alexievitch? Your explanations only partially satisfy me. Perhaps I did wrong to insist upon accepting a good situation when it was offered me, seeing that from my last experience in that way I derived a s…