The Need to Get in Trouble/ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
“But listen,” if you don’t go with me, you are in danger of losing me. I believe I am… in love already.” “With whom?’ asked Andrey Ilyitch. “It can’t make any difference to you who it is!” cried Sofya Petrovna. Andrey Ilyitch sat up with his feet out of bed and looked wondering at his […]
Past the Prime of Life/ Charles Dickens
The looker-on was a round, red-faced, sturdy yeoman, with a double chin, and a voice husky with good living, good sleeping, good humour, and good health. He was past the prime of life, but Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand […]
