CHAPTER IV

NIKITIN But this is not my story. If I have hitherto taken the chief place it is because, in some degree, the impressions of Trenchard, Marie Ivanovna, Andrey Vassilievitch must, during those first days, have run with my own. We had all been brought to the same point--that last vision from the hill of the battle of S---- and from that day we were no longer apprentices. I now then retire. What happened to myself during the succeeding months is of no matter. But two warnings may be offered. The first is that it must …