The Life of Ivanely Furovna

Ivanely each was esteemed a good official, and after three years was made assistant public prosecutor. After seven years' service in that town, he was transferred to another province as public prosecutor. They moved, but were short of money, and his wife did not like the place they moved to. Proskovia Furovna blamed her husband for every inconvenience they encountered in their new home. The whole interest of his life now centered in the official world, and that interest absorbed him. His aim was to free himself more and more from those unpleasantness, and to give them a semblance of harmlessness and propriety. He attained this by spending less and less time with his family