Chapter 32: August 5th: Dearest Makar Alexievitch

August 5th: Dearest Makar Alexievitch August 5th. Dearest Makar Alexievitch—You must not despair. Away with melancholy! I am sending you thirty kopecks in silver, and regret that I cannot send you more. Buy yourself what you most need until tomorrow. I myself have almost nothing left, and what I am going to do I know not. Is it not dreadful, Makar Alexievitch? Yet do not be downcast—it is no good being that. Thedora declares that it would not be a bad thing if we were to remain in this …