The Anniversary

By Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich

Book Id: WPLBN0000627079
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	The Anniversary
Author:	Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


Citation APA MLA Chicago Pavlovich Chekhov, B. A. (n.d.). The Anniversary. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Description
Excerpt: KHIRIN. Send out to the chemist for 15 copecks? worth of valerian drops, and tell them to bring some drinking water into the Directors? office! This is the hundredth time I've asked! [Goes to a desk] I'm absolutely tired out. This is the fourth day I've been working, without a chance of shutting my eyes. From morning to evening I work here, from evening to morning at home. [Coughs] And I've got an inflammation all over me. I'm hot and cold, and I cough, and my legs ache, and there?s something dancing before my eyes. [Sits] Our scoundrel of a Chairman, the brute, is going to read a report at a general meeting. ?Our Bank, its Present and Future.? You?d think he was a Gambetta ... [At work] Two ... one ... one ... six ... nought ... seven ... Next, six ... nought ... one ... six ... He just wants to throw dust into people?s eyes, and so I sit here and work for him like a galley?slave! This report of his is poetic fiction and nothing more, and here I've got to sit day after day and add figures, devil take his soul! [Rattles on his counting?frame] I can?t stand it! [Writing] That is, one ... three ... seven... two ... one ... nought ... He promised to reward me for my work. If everything goes well to?day and the public is properly put into blinkers, he?s promised me a gold charm and 300 roubles bonus ... We'll see. [Works] Yes, but if my work all goes for nothing, then you?d better look out ... I'm very excitable ... If I lose my temper I'm capable of committing some crime, so look out! Yes!

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: THE ANNIVERSARY, 1 -- Anton Chekov, 1