The Murder

By Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich

Book Id: WPLBN0000630347
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	The Murder
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 Murder. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.us/

Description
Excerpt: THE evening service was being celebrated at Progonnaya Station. Before the great ikon, painted in glaring colours on a background of gold, stood the crowd of railway servants with their wives and children, and also of the timbermen and sawyers who worked close to the railway line. All stood in silence, fascinated by the glare of the lights and the howling of the snow?storm which was aimlessly disporting itself outside, regardless of the fact that it was the Eve of the Annunciation. The old priest from Vedenyapino conducted the service; the sacristan and Matvey Terehov were singing. Matvey?s face was beaming with delight; he sang stretching out his neck as though he wanted to soar upwards. He sang tenor and chanted the ?Praises? too in a tenor voice with honied sweetness and persuasiveness. When he sang ?Archangel Voices? he waved his arms like a conductor, and trying to second the sacristan?s hollow bass with his tenor, achieved something extremely complex, and from his face it could be seen that he was experiencing great pleasure.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: The Murder, 1 -- A. P. Chekhov, 1 -- I, 1 -- II, 4 -- III, 6 -- IV, 8 -- V, 11 -- VI, 14 -- VII, 16