The Party, and Other Stories (Classic Reprint)

AFTER the festive dinner with its eight courses and
its endless conversation, Olga Mihalovna, whose
husband's name-day was being celebrated, went out
into the garden. The duty, of smiling and .!alkiI).g
iOillsa~dy) the clatter of the crockery, th~ stupidity
of the servants, the long intervals between the
courses, and the stays she had put on to conceal her
condition from the visitors, wearied her to 1.exhaus ..
tion. S,he longed ~to- get away)trom the house, to
sit in the shade and rest her heart with thoughts of
the baby 'which was to be born to her in anotner two
months. She was used to these. thought~_coming to
her as she turned to the left out of the big avenue
into the narrow path. Here in the thick shade of
the plums and cherry-trees the dry branches _ used
to scratch her neck and shoulders; a spider's web
would settle on her face, and there would rise up in

Table of Contents

THt rARTY • • • 3; ~RROR • • • • • 63; 'IV OMAN'S KINGDOM · • 87; 'ROBLEM • · 159; HE KISS • • • • • 173; ANN A ON THE NECK" · 209; ['HE TEACHER OF LITERATURE · 235; iT WANTED • • • • • · 277; -' , ~ YPHUS • • • • · 291; :~;~ MISFORTUNE • · 305; A TRIFLE FROM LIFE • • • • • • • • 331

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