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Gratis
Anton Chekhov

The Darling and Other Stories

  • Ирина Осипенкоhar citeretfor 4 år siden
    "And this is family happiness!" he said, jeering at himself. "This is love!"
  • Ирина Осипенкоhar citeretfor 4 år siden
    She knew Laptev very little, had made his acquaintance by chance; he was a rich man, a partner in the well-known Moscow firm of "Fyodor Laptev and Sons"; always serious, apparently clever, and anxious about his sister's illness. It had seemed to her that he took no notice of her whatever, and she did not care about him in the least --and then all of a sudden that declaration on the stairs, that pitiful, ecstatic face. . . .
  • Ирина Осипенкоhar citeretfor 4 år siden
    Three months later Olenka was coming home from mass, melancholy and in deep mourning. It happened that one of her neighbours, Vassily Andreitch Pustovalov, returning home from church, walked back beside her. He was the manager at Babakayev's, the timber merchant's. He wore a straw hat, a white waistcoat, and a gold watch-chain, and looked more a country gentleman than a man in trade.
  • Ирина Осипенкоhar citeretfor 4 år siden
    "Well, rain away, then! Flood the garden, drown me! Damn my luck in this world and the next! Let the artists have me up! Send me to prison!--to Siberia!--the scaffold! Ha, ha, ha!"
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