[21] One must do her that much justice.
[22] Alína is an abbreviation, and a pet name, for Alexándra.
[23] And you contradicted them.
[24] Yefím was the peasant who had cut down the tree.
[25] It's too fine spun.
[26] What energy, I do admire her.
[27] Oh, as far as that goes, we are not lacking.
[28] The woman, for all her roughness, is sorry to part from her husband.
[29] People shake hands much more often in Russia than in England, but it is quite unusual to shake hands with a servant, and Nicholas Ivánovich does it in consequence of his belief that all men are brothers.
[30] Father Gerásim is modelled on the lines of the celebrated Father John of Cronstadt.