explain the paragraph : –
Sergei hurried into the dining-room. From its windows one could see the wood-shed and everything that went on in the yard. Standing at the window, Sergei saw the cook and the beggar come out into the yard by the back door and make their way across the dirty snow to the shed. Olga glared wrathfully at her companion, shoved him aside with her elbow, unlocked the shed, and angrily banged the door.
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The Beggar Lesson Explanation
“KIND sir, have pity; turn your attention to a poor, hungry man! For three days I have had nothing to eat; I haven’t five copecks for a lodging, I swear it before God. For eight years I was a village schoolteacher and then I lost my place through intrigues. I fell a victim to calumny. It is a year now since I have had anything to do.”
Copecks: Russian coin equal to one-hundredth of a rouble
Intrigues: make secret plans to do something illicit or detrimental to someone
Calumny: the making of false and defamatory statements about someone in order to damage his/her reputation
A man was begging alms. He said that he had not eaten anything for the last three days. He did not even have five copecks to pay for a room to spend the night at. He swore by God that he spoke the truth. He had been a school teacher in a village for eight years but lost that job due to the conspiracy of his colleagues. For the last one year he was without work.
The advocate, Sergei, looked at the ragged, fawn-coloured overcoat of the suppliant, at his dull, drunken eyes, at the red spot on either cheek, and it seemed to him as if he had seen this man somewhere before.
Suppliant: a person making a humble plea to someone in power or authority
An advocated named Sergei looked at the light brown coloured coat of the beggar. The beggar had dull, drunken eyes. There were red spots on both his cheeks. Sergei felt that he had seen the man before.
“I have now had an offer of a position in the province of Kaluga,” the mendicant went on, “but I haven’t the money to get there. Help me kindly; I am ashamed to ask, but — I am obliged to
by circumstances.”
Mendicant: beggar
obliged to: compelled, forced
The beggar continued that he had got an offer of a job in the state of Kaluga in Russia. He did not have enough money to travel to the place. He wanted help though he felt ashamed asking for it, but his circumstances forced him to do so.
Sergei’s eyes fell on the man’s overshoes, one of which was high and the other low, and he suddenly remembered something.
Sergei saw the man’s shoes – both of them had varying heel sizes. He remembered something.
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