The Man In A Case (Chekhov Stories) by Anton Chekhov

Author:Anton Chekhov
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, novel, book, bestseller, top10, interactive media, urban romantics
Publisher: Sovereign Classic
Published: 2017-01-27T00:00:00+00:00

' I dont understand, he used to say to us, shrugging his shoulders ―I dont understand how you can put up with that sneak, that nasty rat face. Ugh! how can you live here! The atmosphere is stifling and foul! Do you call yourselves schoolmasters, teachers? You are paltry government clerks. You keep, not a temple of science, but a department for red tape and loyal behaviour, and it smells as sour as a police-station. No, my friends; I will stay with you for a while, and then I will go to my farm and there catch crabs and teach the Ukrainians. I shall go, and you can stay here with your Judas ― hope he burns in hell!

'Or he would laugh till he cried, first in a loud bass, then in a shrill, thin laugh, and ask me, waving his hands:

' What does he sit here for? What does he want? He sits and stares.

‘Шо он у меня сидить? Шо ему надо? Сидить и смотрить.’ (in Ukrainian)

'He even gave Byelikov a nickname, ‘glytai abozh pavuk’ ( глитай абож павук ) (which is a blood sucking spider in Ukrainian). And it will readily be understood that we avoided talking to him of his sisters being about to marry this blood sucker.

'And on one occasion, when the headmasters wife hinted to him what a good thing it would be to secure his sisters future with such a reliable, universally respected man as Byelikov, he frowned and muttered:

' Its not my business; let her marry a reptile if she likes. I dont like meddling in other peoples affairs.

'Now hear what happened next. Some mischievous person drew a caricature of Byelikov walking along in his galoshes with his trousers tucked up, under his umbrella, with Varinka on his arm; below, the inscription Anthropos in love. The expression captured was spot-on. The artist must have worked for more than one night, for the teachers of both the boys and girls high-schools, the teachers of the seminary, the government officials, all received a copy. Byelikov received one, too. The caricature made a very painful impression on him.

'We went out together; it was the first of May, a Sunday, and all of us, the boys and the teachers, had agreed to meet at the high-school and then to go for a walk together to a wood beyond the town. We set off, and he was green in the face and gloomier than a storm-cloud.

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