The Schoolmistress, And Other Stories
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.. . Anything may happen! Now I am carrying him under my armlike a bundle of rubbish, and perhaps in thirty or forty years I may notdare to sit down in his presence. .. . " As Miguev was walking along a narrow, deserted alley, beside a longrow of fences, in the thick black shade of the lime trees, it suddenlystruck him that he was doing something very cruel and criminal.
"How mean it is really!" he thought. "So mean that one can't imagineanything meaner. .. . Why are we shifting this poor baby ...from door todoor? It's not its fault that it's been born. It's done us no harm. Weare scoundrels. .. . We take our pleasure, and the innocent babies haveto pay the penalty. Only to think of all this wretched business! I'vedone wrong and the child has a cruel fate before it. If I lay it at theMyelkins' door, they'll send it to the foundling hospital, and there itwill grow up among strangers, in mechanical routine, . .. No love, no petting, no spoiling. .. . And then he'll be apprenticed to ashoemaker, .
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
.. . Anything may happen! Now I am carrying him under my armlike a bundle of rubbish, and perhaps in thirty or forty years I may notdare to sit down in his presence. .. . " As Miguev was walking along a narrow, deserted alley, beside a longrow of fences, in the thick black shade of the lime trees, it suddenlystruck him that he was doing something very cruel and criminal.
"How mean it is really!" he thought. "So mean that one can't imagineanything meaner. .. . Why are we shifting this poor baby ...from door todoor? It's not its fault that it's been born. It's done us no harm. Weare scoundrels. .. . We take our pleasure, and the innocent babies haveto pay the penalty. Only to think of all this wretched business! I'vedone wrong and the child has a cruel fate before it. If I lay it at theMyelkins' door, they'll send it to the foundling hospital, and there itwill grow up among strangers, in mechanical routine, . .. No love, no petting, no spoiling. .. . And then he'll be apprenticed to ashoemaker, .
What to read after The Schoolmistress, And Other Stories?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Chekhov Anton Pavlovich to read onlineMoreLess
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