Show KINDNESS 0 OF A RUSSIAN COUNT by the russian i laws law every female serf is free as soon as married to a free man on the other hand marriage with a serf entails serfdom on a free woman on a certain day one of count me rich bondsmen appeared before hi his 1 s lord to petition for the freedom of a son the young man was in love with a poor but free maiden who returned his affection but would not sacrifice her liberty to love the father offered eighty thousand rubles as the price of his sons happiness the count accepted and desired his vassal to produce the money in an instant it was paid over letters monea 0 of emancipation p a tion were forthwith drawn up and the cout count it delivered them to the deli delighted eted father with the words you must let me te be the il when in this capacity the count had conducted the bride from the altar husbands house and had handed her according to russian custom upon a silver waiter the first glass af of pf champagne he presented to her as a bridal gift a bouquet of fresh flowers skillfully fully arranged round a small case containing contal ning the eighty thousand rubles Black woods mar mag n |