Selected Stories of Anton Chekov by Anton Chekhov & Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky

Author:Anton Chekhov & Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Classics, Short Stories, Fiction
ISBN: 9780307568281
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 2009-07-29T04:00:00+00:00

A monk dressed in black, with gray hair and black eyebrows, his arms crossed on his chest, raced past … His bare feet did not touch the ground. He was already some twenty feet past Kovrin when he looked back at him, nodded and smiled at him tenderly and at the same time slyly. But what a pale, terribly pale, thin face! Beginning to grow again, he flew across the river, noiselessly struck against the clayey bank and the pines, and, passing through them, vanished like smoke.

“Well, so you see …” Kovrin muttered. “It means the legend is true.”

Without trying to explain the strange event to himself, pleased merely at having seen not only the black clothes but even the face and eyes of the monk so closely and clearly, feeling pleasantly excited, he returned home.

In the park and garden people were calmly walking, there was music in the house—it meant that he alone had seen the monk. He had a great desire to tell Tanya and Yegor Semyonych everything, but he realized that they would probably consider his words raving, and that would frighten them; it was better to keep quiet. He laughed loudly, sang, danced a mazurka, had a merry time, and everybody, the guests and Tanya, found that his face was somehow especially radiant and inspired that day, and that he was very interesting.

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