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The Pastor
the pastor
also: новобрачный, the bridegroom
A young, fair-headed clergyman traveling as a bridegroom, first seen reading the Gospel to his bride and later shown selling her to an English banker for money.
Reading notes
- At Sea (a sailor's story) §16 the pastor
A young clergyman, the bridegroom in the bridal cabin, whose pious appearance with a Gospel gives way to a very different transaction by the story's end.