One day when she was younger and better-looking, and when her voice was stronger, Nikolay Petrovitch Kolpakov, her adorer, was sitting in the outer room in her summer villa. It was intolerably hot and stifling. Kolpakov, who had just dined and drunk a whole bottle of inferior port, felt ill-humoured and out of sorts. Both were bored and waiting for the heat of the day to be over in order to go for a walk.
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Table of contents
- THE CHORUS GIRL
- VEROTCHKA
- MY LIFE
- AT A COUNTRY HOUSE
- A FATHER
- ON THE ROAD
- ROTHSCHILD’S FIDDLE
- IVAN MATVEYITCH
- ZINOTCHKA
- BAD WEATHER
- A GENTLEMAN FRIEND
- A TRIVIAL INCIDENT