Author:  Leo Nikoleyevich Tolstoy

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THE AWAKENING

(The Resurrection)

by

COUNT LEO TOLSTOI

Author of

“War and Peace,” “The Kreutzer Sonata,”
“Anna Karenina,” Etc.

Translated by William E. Smith

[Illustration:  Count Leo Tolstoi.]

New York
Street & Smith, Publishers
238 William Street
Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1900
By Street & Smith
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D.C.

     “Then came Peter to Him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my
     brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven
     times?”—­Matthew, c. xviii.; v. 21.

     “Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven
     times:  but until seventy times seven.”—­Idem, v. 22.

     “And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s
     eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own
     eye!”—­Idem, c. vii.; v. 3.

     “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a
     stone at her.”—­John, c. viii.; v. 7.

     “The disciple is not above his master:  but every one that is
     perfect shall be as his master.”—­Luke, c. vi.; v. 40.

THE AWAKENING.

PART FIRST.

CHAPTER I.

All the efforts of several hundred thousand people, crowded in a small space, to disfigure the land on which they lived; all the stone they covered it with to keep it barren; how so diligently every sprouting blade of grass was removed; all the smoke of coal and naphtha; all the cutting down of trees and driving off of cattle could not shut out the spring, even from the city.  The sun was shedding its light; the grass, revivified, was blooming forth, where it was left uncut, not only on the greenswards of the