There, you see, if I may use the word, what circumstances I am in, so to speak. But I don't complain I'm used to it, and I can smile. And, Ermolai Alexeyevitch, allow me to say to you, in addition, that I bought myself some boots two days ago, and I beg to assure you that they squeak in a perfectly unbearable manner. Our climate is indisposed to favour us even this once.

There's a frost this morning-three degrees, and the cherry-trees are all in flower. And you'll bring me some kvass.ĮPIKHODOV. The gardener sent these says they're to go into the dining-room. You dress just like a lady, and you do your hair like one too. The dogs didn't sleep all night they know that they're coming. Here I've been reading this book, but I understood nothing. I'm rich now, with lots of money, but just think about it and examine me, and you'll find I'm still a peasant down to the marrow of my bones. My father was a peasant, it's true, but here I am in a white waistcoat and yellow shoes. She said, 'Don't cry, little man, it'll be all right in time for your wedding.' 'Little man'. Lubov Andreyevna, as I remember her now, was still young, and very thin, and she took me to the washstand here in this very room, the nursery. We had gone into the yard together for something or other, and he was a little drunk. I remember when I was a boy of fifteen, my father, who is dead-he used to keep a shop in the village here-hit me on the face with his fist, and my nose bled. She's a good sort-an easy, simple person. Lubov Andreyevna has been living abroad for five years I don't know what she'll be like now. They've got to collect their luggage and so on. I have made a rotten mess of it! I came here on purpose to meet them at the station, and then overslept myself. How much was the train late? Two hours at least.

The cherry tree chekhov