Annouchka

I.
I was then five-and-twenty,--that was a sufficient indication that I
had
a past, said he, beginning. My own master for some little time, I
resolved to travel,--not to complete my education, as they said at the
time, but to see the world. I was young, light-hearted, in good
health,
free from every care, with a well-filled purse; I gave no thought to
the
future; I indulged every whim,--in fact, I lived like a flower that
expands in the sun. The idea that man is but…