The Chorus Girl and Other Stories

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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. The Chorus Girl and Other Stories

THE CHORUS GIRL

VEROTCHKA

MY LIFE. THE STORY OF A PROVINCIAL

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AT A COUNTRY HOUSE

A FATHER

ON THE ROAD

ROTHSCHILD'S FIDDLE

IVAN MATVEYITCH

ZINOTCHKA

BAD WEATHER

A GENTLEMAN FRIEND

A TRIVIAL INCIDENT

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IVAN ALEXEYITCH OGNEV remembers how on that August evening he opened the glass door with a rattle and went out on to the verandah. He was wearing a light Inverness cape and a wide-brimmed straw hat, the very one that was lying with his top-boots in the dust under his bed. In one hand he had a big bundle of books and notebooks, in the other a thick knotted stick.

Behind the door, holding the lamp to show the way, stood the master of the house, Kuznetsov, a bald old man with a long grey beard, in a snow-white piqué jacket. The old man was smiling cordially and nodding his head.

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"Vera Gavrilovna, I am very grateful to you, though I feel I've done nothing to deserve such.. feeling.. on your part. Besides, as an honest man I ought to tell you that.. happiness depends on equality – that is, when both parties are.. equally in love.."

But he was immediately ashamed of his mutterings and ceased. He felt that his face at that moment looked stupid, guilty, blank, that it was strained and affected… Vera must have been able to read the truth on his countenance, for she suddenly became grave, turned pale, and bent her head.

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