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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Slanderer + 1901 + +Author: Anton Chekhov + +Translator: Herman Bernstein + +Release Date: October 17, 2007 [EBook #23055] +Last Updated: September 10, 2016 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SLANDERER *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + +THE SLANDERER + +By Anton Chekhov + +Translated by Herman Bernstein. + +Copyright, 1901, by the Globe and Commercial Advertiser + + +Sergey Kapitonlch Akhineyev, the teacher of calligraphy, gave his +daughter Natalya in marriage to the teacher of history and geography, +Ivan Petrovich Loshadinikh. The wedding feast went on swimmingly. They +sang, played, and danced in the parlor. Waiters, hired for the occasion +from the club, bustled about hither and thither like madmen, in black +frock coats and soiled white neckties. A loud noise of voices smote the +air. From the outside people looked in at the windows;--their social +standing gave them no right to enter. + +Just at midnight the host, Akhineyev, made his way to the kitchen to see +whether everything was ready for the supper. The kitchen was filled with +smoke from the floor to the ceiling; the smoke reeked with the odors +of geese, ducks, and many other things. Victuals and beverages were +scattered about on two tables in artistic disorder. Marfa, the cook, a +stout, red-faced woman, was busying herself near the loaded tables. + +“Show me the sturgeon, dear,” said Akhineyev, rubbing his hands and +licking his lips. “What a fine odor! I could just devour the whole +kitchen! Well, let me see the sturgeon!” + +Marfa walked up to one of the benches and carefully lifted a greasy +newspaper. Beneath that paper, in a huge dish, lay a big fat sturgeon, +amid capers, olives, and carrots. Akhineyev glanced at the sturgeon and +heaved a sigh of relief. His face became radiant, his eyes rolled. He +bent down, and, smacking his lips, gave vent to a sound like a creaking +wheel. He stood a while, then snapped his fingers for pleasure, and +smacked his lips once more. + +“Bah! The sound of a hearty kiss. Whom have you been kissing there, +Marfusha?” some one’s voice was heard from the adjoining room, and soon +the closely cropped head of Vankin, the assistant school instructor, +appeared in the doorway. “Whom have you been kissing here? A-a-ah! Very +good! Sergey Kapitonich! A fine old man indeed! With the female sex +tête-à-tête!” + +“I wasn’t kissing at all,” said Akhineyev, confused; “who told you, +you fool? I only--smacked my lips on account of--in consideration of my +pleasure--at the sight of the fish.” + +“Tell that to some one else, not to me!” exclaimed Vankin, whose face +expanded into a broad smile as he disappeared behind the door. Akhineyev +blushed. + +“The devil knows what may be the outcome of this!” he thought. “He’ll go +about tale-bearing now, the rascal. He’ll disgrace me before the whole +town, the brute!” + +Akhineyev entered the parlor timidly and cast furtive glances to see +what Vankin was doing. Vankin stood near the piano and, deftly bending +down, whispered something to the inspector’s sister-in-law, who was +laughing. + +“That’s about me!” thought Akhineyev. “About me, the devil take him! +She believes him, she’s laughing. My God! No, that mustn’t be left like +that. No. I’ll have to fix it so that no one shall believe him. I’ll +speak to all of them, and he’ll remain a foolish gossip in the end.” + +Akhineyev scratched his head, and, still confused, walked up to Padekoi. + +“I was in the kitchen a little while ago, arranging things there for the +supper,” he said to the Frenchman. “You like fish, I know, and I have +a sturgeon just so big. About two yards. Ha, ha, ha! Yes, by the way, I +have almost forgotten. There was a real anecdote about that sturgeon +in the kitchen. I entered the kitchen a little while ago and wanted to +examine the food. I glanced at the sturgeon and for pleasure, I smacked +my lips--it was so piquant! And just at that moment the fool Vankin +entered and says--ha, ha, ha--and says: ‘A-a! A-a-ah! You have been +kissing here?’--with Marfa; just think of it--with the cook! What a +piece of invention, that blockhead. The woman is ugly, she looks like a +monkey, and he says we were kissing. What a queer fellow!” + +“Who’s a queer fellow?” asked Tarantulov, as he approached them. + +“I refer to Vankin. I went out into the kitchen--” + +The story of Marfa and the sturgeon was repeated. + +“That makes me laugh. What a queer fellow he is. In my opinion it is +more pleasant to kiss the dog than to kiss Marfa,” added Akhineyev, and, +turning around, he noticed Mzda. + +“We have been speaking about Vankin,” he said to him. “What a queer +fellow. He entered the kitchen and noticed me standing beside Marfa, and +immediately he began to invent different stories. ‘What?’ he says, +‘you have been kissing each other!’ He was drunk, so he must have been +dreaming. And I,’ I said, ‘I would rather kiss a duck than kiss Marfa. +And I have a wife,’ said I, ‘you fool.’ He made me appear ridiculous.” + +“Who made you appear ridiculous?” inquired the teacher of religion, +addressing Akhineyev. + +“Vankin. I was standing in the kitchen, you know, and looking at the +sturgeon--” And so forth. In about half an hour all the guests knew the +story about Vankin and the sturgeon. + +“Now let him tell,” thought Akhineyev, rubbing his hands. “Let him do +it. He’ll start to tell them, and they’ll cut him short: ‘Don’t talk +nonsense, you fool! We know all about it.’” + +And Akhineyev felt so much appeased that, for joy, he drank four glasses +of brandy over and above his fill. Having escorted his daughter to her +room, he went to his own and soon slept the sleep of an innocent child, +and on the following day he no longer remembered the story of the +sturgeon. But, alas! Man proposes and God disposes. The evil tongue does +its wicked work, and even Akhineyev’s cunning did not do him any good. +One week later, on a Wednesday, after the third lesson, when Akhineyev +stood in the teachers’ room and discussed the vicious inclinations of +the pupil Visyekin, the director approached him, and, beckoning to him, +called him aside. + +“See here, Sergey Kapitonich,” said the director. “Pardon me. It isn’t +my affair, yet I must make it clear to you, nevertheless. It is my +duty--You see, rumors are on foot that you are on intimate terms with +that woman--with your cook--It isn’t my affair, but--You may be on +intimate terms with her, you may kiss her--You may do whatever you like, +but, please, don’t do it so openly! I beg of you. Don’t forget that you +are a pedagogue.” + +Akhineyev stood as though frozen and petrified. Like one stung by a +swarm of bees and scalded with boiling water, he went home. On his +way it seemed to him as though the whole town stared at him as at one +besmeared with tar--At home new troubles awaited him. + +“Why don’t you eat anything?” asked his wife at their dinner. “What are +you thinking about? Are you thinking about Cupid, eh? You are longing +for Marfushka. I know everything already, you Mahomet. Kind people have +opened my eyes, you barbarian!” + +And she slapped him on the cheek. + +He rose from the table, and staggering, without cap or coat, directed +his footsteps toward Vankin. The latter was at home. + +“You rascal!” he said to Vankin. “Why have you covered me with mud +before the whole world? Why have you slandered me?” + +“How; what slander? What are you inventing?” + +“And who told everybody that I was kissing Marfa? Not you, perhaps? Not +you, you murderer?” + +Vankin began to blink his eyes, and all the fibres of his face began to +quiver. He lifted his eyes toward the image and ejaculated: + +“May God punish me, may I lose my eyesight and die, if I said even a +single word about you to any one! May I have neither house nor home!” + +Vankin’s sincerity admitted of no doubt. It was evident that it was not +he who had gossiped. + +“But who was it? Who?” Akhineyev asked himself, going over in his mind +all his acquaintances, and striking his chest. “Who was it?” + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Slanderer, by Anton Chekhov + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SLANDERER *** + +***** This file should be named 23055-0.txt or 23055-0.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/3/0/5/23055/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Slanderer + 1901 + +Author: Anton Chekhov + +Translator: Herman Bernstein + +Release Date: October 17, 2007 [EBook #23055] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SLANDERER *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + +THE SLANDERER + +By Anton Chekhov + +Translated by Herman Bernstein. + +Copyright, 1901, by the Globe and Commercial Advertiser + + +Sergey Kapitonlch Akhineyev, the teacher of calligraphy, gave his +daughter Natalya in marriage to the teacher of history and geography, +Ivan Petrovich Loshadinikh. The wedding feast went on swimmingly. They +sang, played, and danced in the parlor. Waiters, hired for the occasion +from the club, bustled about hither and thither like madmen, in black +frock coats and soiled white neckties. A loud noise of voices smote the +air. From the outside people looked in at the windows;--their social +standing gave them no right to enter. + +Just at midnight the host, Akhineyev, made his way to the kitchen to see +whether everything was ready for the supper. The kitchen was filled with +smoke from the floor to the ceiling; the smoke reeked with the odors +of geese, ducks, and many other things. Victuals and beverages were +scattered about on two tables in artistic disorder. Marfa, the cook, a +stout, red-faced woman, was busying herself near the loaded tables. + +"Show me the sturgeon, dear," said Akhineyev, rubbing his hands and +licking his lips. "What a fine odor! I could just devour the whole +kitchen! Well, let me see the sturgeon!" + +Marfa walked up to one of the benches and carefully lifted a greasy +newspaper. Beneath that paper, in a huge dish, lay a big fat sturgeon, +amid capers, olives, and carrots. Akhineyev glanced at the sturgeon and +heaved a sigh of relief. His face became radiant, his eyes rolled. He +bent down, and, smacking his lips, gave vent to a sound like a creaking +wheel. He stood a while, then snapped his fingers for pleasure, and +smacked his lips once more. + +"Bah! The sound of a hearty kiss. Whom have you been kissing there, +Marfusha?" some one's voice was heard from the adjoining room, and soon +the closely cropped head of Vankin, the assistant school instructor, +appeared in the doorway. "Whom have you been kissing here? A-a-ah! Very +good! Sergey Kapitonich! A fine old man indeed! With the female sex +tte--tte!" + +"I wasn't kissing at all," said Akhineyev, confused; "who told you, +you fool? I only--smacked my lips on account of--in consideration of my +pleasure--at the sight of the fish." + +"Tell that to some one else, not to me!" exclaimed Vankin, whose face +expanded into a broad smile as he disappeared behind the door. Akhineyev +blushed. + +"The devil knows what may be the outcome of this!" he thought. "He'll go +about tale-bearing now, the rascal. He'll disgrace me before the whole +town, the brute!" + +Akhineyev entered the parlor timidly and cast furtive glances to see +what Vankin was doing. Vankin stood near the piano and, deftly bending +down, whispered something to the inspector's sister-in-law, who was +laughing. + +"That's about me!" thought Akhineyev. "About me, the devil take him! +She believes him, she's laughing. My God! No, that mustn't be left like +that. No. I'll have to fix it so that no one shall believe him. I'll +speak to all of them, and he'll remain a foolish gossip in the end." + +Akhineyev scratched his head, and, still confused, walked up to Padekoi. + +"I was in the kitchen a little while ago, arranging things there for the +supper," he said to the Frenchman. "You like fish, I know, and I have +a sturgeon just so big. About two yards. Ha, ha, ha! Yes, by the way, I +have almost forgotten. There was a real anecdote about that sturgeon +in the kitchen. I entered the kitchen a little while ago and wanted to +examine the food. I glanced at the sturgeon and for pleasure, I smacked +my lips--it was so piquant! And just at that moment the fool Vankin +entered and says--ha, ha, ha--and says: 'A-a! A-a-ah! You have been +kissing here?'--with Marfa; just think of it--with the cook! What a +piece of invention, that blockhead. The woman is ugly, she looks like a +monkey, and he says we were kissing. What a queer fellow!" + +"Who's a queer fellow?" asked Tarantulov, as he approached them. + +"I refer to Vankin. I went out into the kitchen--" + +The story of Marfa and the sturgeon was repeated. + +"That makes me laugh. What a queer fellow he is. In my opinion it is +more pleasant to kiss the dog than to kiss Marfa," added Akhineyev, and, +turning around, he noticed Mzda. + +"We have been speaking about Vankin," he said to him. "What a queer +fellow. He entered the kitchen and noticed me standing beside Marfa, and +immediately he began to invent different stories. 'What?' he says, +'you have been kissing each other!' He was drunk, so he must have been +dreaming. And I,' I said, 'I would rather kiss a duck than kiss Marfa. +And I have a wife,' said I, 'you fool.' He made me appear ridiculous." + +"Who made you appear ridiculous?" inquired the teacher of religion, +addressing Akhineyev. + +"Vankin. I was standing in the kitchen, you know, and looking at the +sturgeon--" And so forth. In about half an hour all the guests knew the +story about Vankin and the sturgeon. + +"Now let him tell," thought Akhineyev, rubbing his hands. "Let him do +it. He'll start to tell them, and they'll cut him short: 'Don't talk +nonsense, you fool! We know all about it.'" + +And Akhineyev felt so much appeased that, for joy, he drank four glasses +of brandy over and above his fill. Having escorted his daughter to her +room, he went to his own and soon slept the sleep of an innocent child, +and on the following day he no longer remembered the story of the +sturgeon. But, alas! Man proposes and God disposes. The evil tongue does +its wicked work, and even Akhineyev's cunning did not do him any good. +One week later, on a Wednesday, after the third lesson, when Akhineyev +stood in the teachers' room and discussed the vicious inclinations of +the pupil Visyekin, the director approached him, and, beckoning to him, +called him aside. + +"See here, Sergey Kapitonich," said the director. "Pardon me. It isn't +my affair, yet I must make it clear to you, nevertheless. It is my +duty--You see, rumors are on foot that you are on intimate terms with +that woman--with your cook--It isn't my affair, but--You may be on +intimate terms with her, you may kiss her--You may do whatever you like, +but, please, don't do it so openly! I beg of you. Don't forget that you +are a pedagogue." + +Akhineyev stood as though frozen and petrified. Like one stung by a +swarm of bees and scalded with boiling water, he went home. On his +way it seemed to him as though the whole town stared at him as at one +besmeared with tar--At home new troubles awaited him. + +"Why don't you eat anything?" asked his wife at their dinner. "What are +you thinking about? Are you thinking about Cupid, eh? You are longing +for Marfushka. I know everything already, you Mahomet. Kind people have +opened my eyes, you barbarian!" + +And she slapped him on the cheek. + +He rose from the table, and staggering, without cap or coat, directed +his footsteps toward Vankin. The latter was at home. + +"You rascal!" he said to Vankin. "Why have you covered me with mud +before the whole world? Why have you slandered me?" + +"How; what slander? What are you inventing?" + +"And who told everybody that I was kissing Marfa? Not you, perhaps? Not +you, you murderer?" + +Vankin began to blink his eyes, and all the fibres of his face began to +quiver. He lifted his eyes toward the image and ejaculated: + +"May God punish me, may I lose my eyesight and die, if I said even a +single word about you to any one! May I have neither house nor home!" + +Vankin's sincerity admitted of no doubt. It was evident that it was not +he who had gossiped. + +"But who was it? Who?" Akhineyev asked himself, going over in his mind +all his acquaintances, and striking his chest. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Slanderer + 1901 + +Author: Anton Chekhov + +Translator: Herman Bernstein + +Release Date: October 17, 2007 [EBook #23055] +Last Updated: September 10, 2016 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SLANDERER *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + +</pre> + + <div style="height: 8em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h1> + THE SLANDERER + </h1> + <h2> + By Anton Chekhov + </h2> + <h4> + Translated by Herman Bernstein. <br /> <br /> Copyright, 1901, by the Globe + and Commercial Advertiser + </h4> + <p> + <br /> <br /> + </p> + <p> + Sergey Kapitonlch Akhineyev, the teacher of calligraphy, gave his daughter + Natalya in marriage to the teacher of history and geography, Ivan + Petrovich Loshadinikh. The wedding feast went on swimmingly. They sang, + played, and danced in the parlor. Waiters, hired for the occasion from the + club, bustled about hither and thither like madmen, in black frock coats + and soiled white neckties. A loud noise of voices smote the air. From the + outside people looked in at the windows;—their social standing gave + them no right to enter. + </p> + <p> + Just at midnight the host, Akhineyev, made his way to the kitchen to see + whether everything was ready for the supper. The kitchen was filled with + smoke from the floor to the ceiling; the smoke reeked with the odors of + geese, ducks, and many other things. Victuals and beverages were scattered + about on two tables in artistic disorder. Marfa, the cook, a stout, + red-faced woman, was busying herself near the loaded tables. + </p> + <p> + “Show me the sturgeon, dear,” said Akhineyev, rubbing his hands and + licking his lips. “What a fine odor! I could just devour the whole + kitchen! Well, let me see the sturgeon!” + </p> + <p> + Marfa walked up to one of the benches and carefully lifted a greasy + newspaper. Beneath that paper, in a huge dish, lay a big fat sturgeon, + amid capers, olives, and carrots. Akhineyev glanced at the sturgeon and + heaved a sigh of relief. His face became radiant, his eyes rolled. He bent + down, and, smacking his lips, gave vent to a sound like a creaking wheel. + He stood a while, then snapped his fingers for pleasure, and smacked his + lips once more. + </p> + <p> + “Bah! The sound of a hearty kiss. Whom have you been kissing there, + Marfusha?” some one’s voice was heard from the adjoining room, and soon + the closely cropped head of Vankin, the assistant school instructor, + appeared in the doorway. “Whom have you been kissing here? A-a-ah! Very + good! Sergey Kapitonich! A fine old man indeed! With the female sex + tête-à-tête!” + </p> + <p> + “I wasn’t kissing at all,” said Akhineyev, confused; “who told you, you + fool? I only—smacked my lips on account of—in consideration of + my pleasure—at the sight of the fish.” + </p> + <p> + “Tell that to some one else, not to me!” exclaimed Vankin, whose face + expanded into a broad smile as he disappeared behind the door. Akhineyev + blushed. + </p> + <p> + “The devil knows what may be the outcome of this!” he thought. “He’ll go + about tale-bearing now, the rascal. He’ll disgrace me before the whole + town, the brute!” + </p> + <p> + Akhineyev entered the parlor timidly and cast furtive glances to see what + Vankin was doing. Vankin stood near the piano and, deftly bending down, + whispered something to the inspector’s sister-in-law, who was laughing. + </p> + <p> + “That’s about me!” thought Akhineyev. “About me, the devil take him! She + believes him, she’s laughing. My God! No, that mustn’t be left like that. + No. I’ll have to fix it so that no one shall believe him. I’ll speak to + all of them, and he’ll remain a foolish gossip in the end.” + </p> + <p> + Akhineyev scratched his head, and, still confused, walked up to Padekoi. + </p> + <p> + “I was in the kitchen a little while ago, arranging things there for the + supper,” he said to the Frenchman. “You like fish, I know, and I have a + sturgeon just so big. About two yards. Ha, ha, ha! Yes, by the way, I have + almost forgotten. There was a real anecdote about that sturgeon in the + kitchen. I entered the kitchen a little while ago and wanted to examine + the food. I glanced at the sturgeon and for pleasure, I smacked my lips—it + was so piquant! And just at that moment the fool Vankin entered and says—ha, + ha, ha—and says: ‘A-a! A-a-ah! You have been kissing here?’—with + Marfa; just think of it—with the cook! What a piece of invention, + that blockhead. The woman is ugly, she looks like a monkey, and he says we + were kissing. What a queer fellow!” + </p> + <p> + “Who’s a queer fellow?” asked Tarantulov, as he approached them. + </p> + <p> + “I refer to Vankin. I went out into the kitchen—” + </p> + <p> + The story of Marfa and the sturgeon was repeated. + </p> + <p> + “That makes me laugh. What a queer fellow he is. In my opinion it is more + pleasant to kiss the dog than to kiss Marfa,” added Akhineyev, and, + turning around, he noticed Mzda. + </p> + <p> + “We have been speaking about Vankin,” he said to him. “What a queer + fellow. He entered the kitchen and noticed me standing beside Marfa, and + immediately he began to invent different stories. ‘What?’ he says, ‘you + have been kissing each other!’ He was drunk, so he must have been + dreaming. And I,’ I said, ‘I would rather kiss a duck than kiss Marfa. And + I have a wife,’ said I, ‘you fool.’ He made me appear ridiculous.” + </p> + <p> + “Who made you appear ridiculous?” inquired the teacher of religion, + addressing Akhineyev. + </p> + <p> + “Vankin. I was standing in the kitchen, you know, and looking at the + sturgeon—” And so forth. In about half an hour all the guests knew + the story about Vankin and the sturgeon. + </p> + <p> + “Now let him tell,” thought Akhineyev, rubbing his hands. “Let him do it. + He’ll start to tell them, and they’ll cut him short: ‘Don’t talk nonsense, + you fool! We know all about it.’” + </p> + <p> + And Akhineyev felt so much appeased that, for joy, he drank four glasses + of brandy over and above his fill. Having escorted his daughter to her + room, he went to his own and soon slept the sleep of an innocent child, + and on the following day he no longer remembered the story of the + sturgeon. But, alas! Man proposes and God disposes. The evil tongue does + its wicked work, and even Akhineyev’s cunning did not do him any good. One + week later, on a Wednesday, after the third lesson, when Akhineyev stood + in the teachers’ room and discussed the vicious inclinations of the pupil + Visyekin, the director approached him, and, beckoning to him, called him + aside. + </p> + <p> + “See here, Sergey Kapitonich,” said the director. “Pardon me. It isn’t my + affair, yet I must make it clear to you, nevertheless. It is my duty—You + see, rumors are on foot that you are on intimate terms with that woman—with + your cook—It isn’t my affair, but—You may be on intimate terms + with her, you may kiss her—You may do whatever you like, but, + please, don’t do it so openly! I beg of you. Don’t forget that you are a + pedagogue.” + </p> + <p> + Akhineyev stood as though frozen and petrified. Like one stung by a swarm + of bees and scalded with boiling water, he went home. On his way it seemed + to him as though the whole town stared at him as at one besmeared with tar—At + home new troubles awaited him. + </p> + <p> + “Why don’t you eat anything?” asked his wife at their dinner. “What are + you thinking about? Are you thinking about Cupid, eh? You are longing for + Marfushka. I know everything already, you Mahomet. Kind people have opened + my eyes, you barbarian!” + </p> + <p> + And she slapped him on the cheek. + </p> + <p> + He rose from the table, and staggering, without cap or coat, directed his + footsteps toward Vankin. The latter was at home. + </p> + <p> + “You rascal!” he said to Vankin. “Why have you covered me with mud before + the whole world? Why have you slandered me?” + </p> + <p> + “How; what slander? What are you inventing?” + </p> + <p> + “And who told everybody that I was kissing Marfa? Not you, perhaps? Not + you, you murderer?” + </p> + <p> + Vankin began to blink his eyes, and all the fibres of his face began to + quiver. He lifted his eyes toward the image and ejaculated: + </p> + <p> + “May God punish me, may I lose my eyesight and die, if I said even a + single word about you to any one! May I have neither house nor home!” + </p> + <p> + Vankin’s sincerity admitted of no doubt. It was evident that it was not he + who had gossiped. + </p> + <p> + “But who was it? Who?” Akhineyev asked himself, going over in his mind all + his acquaintances, and striking his chest. “Who was it?” + </p> + <div style="height: 6em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Slanderer, by Anton Chekhov + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SLANDERER *** + +***** This file should be named 23055-h.htm or 23055-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/3/0/5/23055/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Slanderer + 1901 + +Author: Anton Chekhov + +Translator: Herman Bernstein + +Release Date: October 17, 2007 [EBook #23055] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SLANDERER *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + +THE SLANDERER + +By Anton Chekhov + +Translated by Herman Bernstein. + +Copyright, 1901, by the Globe and Commercial Advertiser + + +Sergey Kapitonlch Akhineyev, the teacher of calligraphy, gave his +daughter Natalya in marriage to the teacher of history and geography, +Ivan Petrovich Loshadinikh. The wedding feast went on swimmingly. They +sang, played, and danced in the parlor. Waiters, hired for the occasion +from the club, bustled about hither and thither like madmen, in black +frock coats and soiled white neckties. A loud noise of voices smote the +air. From the outside people looked in at the windows;--their social +standing gave them no right to enter. + +Just at midnight the host, Akhineyev, made his way to the kitchen to see +whether everything was ready for the supper. The kitchen was filled with +smoke from the floor to the ceiling; the smoke reeked with the odors +of geese, ducks, and many other things. Victuals and beverages were +scattered about on two tables in artistic disorder. Marfa, the cook, a +stout, red-faced woman, was busying herself near the loaded tables. + +"Show me the sturgeon, dear," said Akhineyev, rubbing his hands and +licking his lips. "What a fine odor! I could just devour the whole +kitchen! Well, let me see the sturgeon!" + +Marfa walked up to one of the benches and carefully lifted a greasy +newspaper. Beneath that paper, in a huge dish, lay a big fat sturgeon, +amid capers, olives, and carrots. Akhineyev glanced at the sturgeon and +heaved a sigh of relief. His face became radiant, his eyes rolled. He +bent down, and, smacking his lips, gave vent to a sound like a creaking +wheel. He stood a while, then snapped his fingers for pleasure, and +smacked his lips once more. + +"Bah! The sound of a hearty kiss. Whom have you been kissing there, +Marfusha?" some one's voice was heard from the adjoining room, and soon +the closely cropped head of Vankin, the assistant school instructor, +appeared in the doorway. "Whom have you been kissing here? A-a-ah! Very +good! Sergey Kapitonich! A fine old man indeed! With the female sex +tete-a-tete!" + +"I wasn't kissing at all," said Akhineyev, confused; "who told you, +you fool? I only--smacked my lips on account of--in consideration of my +pleasure--at the sight of the fish." + +"Tell that to some one else, not to me!" exclaimed Vankin, whose face +expanded into a broad smile as he disappeared behind the door. Akhineyev +blushed. + +"The devil knows what may be the outcome of this!" he thought. "He'll go +about tale-bearing now, the rascal. He'll disgrace me before the whole +town, the brute!" + +Akhineyev entered the parlor timidly and cast furtive glances to see +what Vankin was doing. Vankin stood near the piano and, deftly bending +down, whispered something to the inspector's sister-in-law, who was +laughing. + +"That's about me!" thought Akhineyev. "About me, the devil take him! +She believes him, she's laughing. My God! No, that mustn't be left like +that. No. I'll have to fix it so that no one shall believe him. I'll +speak to all of them, and he'll remain a foolish gossip in the end." + +Akhineyev scratched his head, and, still confused, walked up to Padekoi. + +"I was in the kitchen a little while ago, arranging things there for the +supper," he said to the Frenchman. "You like fish, I know, and I have +a sturgeon just so big. About two yards. Ha, ha, ha! Yes, by the way, I +have almost forgotten. There was a real anecdote about that sturgeon +in the kitchen. I entered the kitchen a little while ago and wanted to +examine the food. I glanced at the sturgeon and for pleasure, I smacked +my lips--it was so piquant! And just at that moment the fool Vankin +entered and says--ha, ha, ha--and says: 'A-a! A-a-ah! You have been +kissing here?'--with Marfa; just think of it--with the cook! What a +piece of invention, that blockhead. The woman is ugly, she looks like a +monkey, and he says we were kissing. What a queer fellow!" + +"Who's a queer fellow?" asked Tarantulov, as he approached them. + +"I refer to Vankin. I went out into the kitchen--" + +The story of Marfa and the sturgeon was repeated. + +"That makes me laugh. What a queer fellow he is. In my opinion it is +more pleasant to kiss the dog than to kiss Marfa," added Akhineyev, and, +turning around, he noticed Mzda. + +"We have been speaking about Vankin," he said to him. "What a queer +fellow. He entered the kitchen and noticed me standing beside Marfa, and +immediately he began to invent different stories. 'What?' he says, +'you have been kissing each other!' He was drunk, so he must have been +dreaming. And I,' I said, 'I would rather kiss a duck than kiss Marfa. +And I have a wife,' said I, 'you fool.' He made me appear ridiculous." + +"Who made you appear ridiculous?" inquired the teacher of religion, +addressing Akhineyev. + +"Vankin. I was standing in the kitchen, you know, and looking at the +sturgeon--" And so forth. In about half an hour all the guests knew the +story about Vankin and the sturgeon. + +"Now let him tell," thought Akhineyev, rubbing his hands. "Let him do +it. He'll start to tell them, and they'll cut him short: 'Don't talk +nonsense, you fool! We know all about it.'" + +And Akhineyev felt so much appeased that, for joy, he drank four glasses +of brandy over and above his fill. Having escorted his daughter to her +room, he went to his own and soon slept the sleep of an innocent child, +and on the following day he no longer remembered the story of the +sturgeon. But, alas! Man proposes and God disposes. The evil tongue does +its wicked work, and even Akhineyev's cunning did not do him any good. +One week later, on a Wednesday, after the third lesson, when Akhineyev +stood in the teachers' room and discussed the vicious inclinations of +the pupil Visyekin, the director approached him, and, beckoning to him, +called him aside. + +"See here, Sergey Kapitonich," said the director. "Pardon me. It isn't +my affair, yet I must make it clear to you, nevertheless. It is my +duty--You see, rumors are on foot that you are on intimate terms with +that woman--with your cook--It isn't my affair, but--You may be on +intimate terms with her, you may kiss her--You may do whatever you like, +but, please, don't do it so openly! I beg of you. Don't forget that you +are a pedagogue." + +Akhineyev stood as though frozen and petrified. Like one stung by a +swarm of bees and scalded with boiling water, he went home. On his +way it seemed to him as though the whole town stared at him as at one +besmeared with tar--At home new troubles awaited him. + +"Why don't you eat anything?" asked his wife at their dinner. "What are +you thinking about? Are you thinking about Cupid, eh? You are longing +for Marfushka. I know everything already, you Mahomet. Kind people have +opened my eyes, you barbarian!" + +And she slapped him on the cheek. + +He rose from the table, and staggering, without cap or coat, directed +his footsteps toward Vankin. The latter was at home. + +"You rascal!" he said to Vankin. "Why have you covered me with mud +before the whole world? Why have you slandered me?" + +"How; what slander? What are you inventing?" + +"And who told everybody that I was kissing Marfa? Not you, perhaps? Not +you, you murderer?" + +Vankin began to blink his eyes, and all the fibres of his face began to +quiver. He lifted his eyes toward the image and ejaculated: + +"May God punish me, may I lose my eyesight and die, if I said even a +single word about you to any one! May I have neither house nor home!" + +Vankin's sincerity admitted of no doubt. It was evident that it was not +he who had gossiped. + +"But who was it? Who?" Akhineyev asked himself, going over in his mind +all his acquaintances, and striking his chest. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Slanderer + 1901 + +Author: Anton Chekhov + +Translator: Herman Bernstein + +Release Date: October 17, 2007 [EBook #23055] +Last Updated: September 10, 2016 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SLANDERER *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + +</pre> + + <div style="height: 8em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h1> + THE SLANDERER + </h1> + <h2> + By Anton Chekhov + </h2> + <h4> + Translated by Herman Bernstein. <br /> <br /> Copyright, 1901, by the Globe + and Commercial Advertiser + </h4> + <p> + <br /> <br /> + </p> + <p> + Sergey Kapitonlch Akhineyev, the teacher of calligraphy, gave his daughter + Natalya in marriage to the teacher of history and geography, Ivan + Petrovich Loshadinikh. The wedding feast went on swimmingly. They sang, + played, and danced in the parlor. Waiters, hired for the occasion from the + club, bustled about hither and thither like madmen, in black frock coats + and soiled white neckties. A loud noise of voices smote the air. From the + outside people looked in at the windows;—their social standing gave + them no right to enter. + </p> + <p> + Just at midnight the host, Akhineyev, made his way to the kitchen to see + whether everything was ready for the supper. The kitchen was filled with + smoke from the floor to the ceiling; the smoke reeked with the odors of + geese, ducks, and many other things. Victuals and beverages were scattered + about on two tables in artistic disorder. Marfa, the cook, a stout, + red-faced woman, was busying herself near the loaded tables. + </p> + <p> + “Show me the sturgeon, dear,” said Akhineyev, rubbing his hands and + licking his lips. “What a fine odor! I could just devour the whole + kitchen! Well, let me see the sturgeon!” + </p> + <p> + Marfa walked up to one of the benches and carefully lifted a greasy + newspaper. Beneath that paper, in a huge dish, lay a big fat sturgeon, + amid capers, olives, and carrots. Akhineyev glanced at the sturgeon and + heaved a sigh of relief. His face became radiant, his eyes rolled. He bent + down, and, smacking his lips, gave vent to a sound like a creaking wheel. + He stood a while, then snapped his fingers for pleasure, and smacked his + lips once more. + </p> + <p> + “Bah! The sound of a hearty kiss. Whom have you been kissing there, + Marfusha?” some one’s voice was heard from the adjoining room, and soon + the closely cropped head of Vankin, the assistant school instructor, + appeared in the doorway. “Whom have you been kissing here? A-a-ah! Very + good! Sergey Kapitonich! A fine old man indeed! With the female sex + tête-à-tête!” + </p> + <p> + “I wasn’t kissing at all,” said Akhineyev, confused; “who told you, you + fool? I only—smacked my lips on account of—in consideration of + my pleasure—at the sight of the fish.” + </p> + <p> + “Tell that to some one else, not to me!” exclaimed Vankin, whose face + expanded into a broad smile as he disappeared behind the door. Akhineyev + blushed. + </p> + <p> + “The devil knows what may be the outcome of this!” he thought. “He’ll go + about tale-bearing now, the rascal. He’ll disgrace me before the whole + town, the brute!” + </p> + <p> + Akhineyev entered the parlor timidly and cast furtive glances to see what + Vankin was doing. Vankin stood near the piano and, deftly bending down, + whispered something to the inspector’s sister-in-law, who was laughing. + </p> + <p> + “That’s about me!” thought Akhineyev. “About me, the devil take him! She + believes him, she’s laughing. My God! No, that mustn’t be left like that. + No. I’ll have to fix it so that no one shall believe him. I’ll speak to + all of them, and he’ll remain a foolish gossip in the end.” + </p> + <p> + Akhineyev scratched his head, and, still confused, walked up to Padekoi. + </p> + <p> + “I was in the kitchen a little while ago, arranging things there for the + supper,” he said to the Frenchman. “You like fish, I know, and I have a + sturgeon just so big. About two yards. Ha, ha, ha! Yes, by the way, I have + almost forgotten. There was a real anecdote about that sturgeon in the + kitchen. I entered the kitchen a little while ago and wanted to examine + the food. I glanced at the sturgeon and for pleasure, I smacked my lips—it + was so piquant! And just at that moment the fool Vankin entered and says—ha, + ha, ha—and says: ‘A-a! A-a-ah! You have been kissing here?’—with + Marfa; just think of it—with the cook! What a piece of invention, + that blockhead. The woman is ugly, she looks like a monkey, and he says we + were kissing. What a queer fellow!” + </p> + <p> + “Who’s a queer fellow?” asked Tarantulov, as he approached them. + </p> + <p> + “I refer to Vankin. I went out into the kitchen—” + </p> + <p> + The story of Marfa and the sturgeon was repeated. + </p> + <p> + “That makes me laugh. What a queer fellow he is. In my opinion it is more + pleasant to kiss the dog than to kiss Marfa,” added Akhineyev, and, + turning around, he noticed Mzda. + </p> + <p> + “We have been speaking about Vankin,” he said to him. “What a queer + fellow. He entered the kitchen and noticed me standing beside Marfa, and + immediately he began to invent different stories. ‘What?’ he says, ‘you + have been kissing each other!’ He was drunk, so he must have been + dreaming. And I,’ I said, ‘I would rather kiss a duck than kiss Marfa. And + I have a wife,’ said I, ‘you fool.’ He made me appear ridiculous.” + </p> + <p> + “Who made you appear ridiculous?” inquired the teacher of religion, + addressing Akhineyev. + </p> + <p> + “Vankin. I was standing in the kitchen, you know, and looking at the + sturgeon—” And so forth. In about half an hour all the guests knew + the story about Vankin and the sturgeon. + </p> + <p> + “Now let him tell,” thought Akhineyev, rubbing his hands. “Let him do it. + He’ll start to tell them, and they’ll cut him short: ‘Don’t talk nonsense, + you fool! We know all about it.’” + </p> + <p> + And Akhineyev felt so much appeased that, for joy, he drank four glasses + of brandy over and above his fill. Having escorted his daughter to her + room, he went to his own and soon slept the sleep of an innocent child, + and on the following day he no longer remembered the story of the + sturgeon. But, alas! Man proposes and God disposes. The evil tongue does + its wicked work, and even Akhineyev’s cunning did not do him any good. One + week later, on a Wednesday, after the third lesson, when Akhineyev stood + in the teachers’ room and discussed the vicious inclinations of the pupil + Visyekin, the director approached him, and, beckoning to him, called him + aside. + </p> + <p> + “See here, Sergey Kapitonich,” said the director. “Pardon me. It isn’t my + affair, yet I must make it clear to you, nevertheless. It is my duty—You + see, rumors are on foot that you are on intimate terms with that woman—with + your cook—It isn’t my affair, but—You may be on intimate terms + with her, you may kiss her—You may do whatever you like, but, + please, don’t do it so openly! I beg of you. Don’t forget that you are a + pedagogue.” + </p> + <p> + Akhineyev stood as though frozen and petrified. Like one stung by a swarm + of bees and scalded with boiling water, he went home. On his way it seemed + to him as though the whole town stared at him as at one besmeared with tar—At + home new troubles awaited him. + </p> + <p> + “Why don’t you eat anything?” asked his wife at their dinner. “What are + you thinking about? Are you thinking about Cupid, eh? You are longing for + Marfushka. I know everything already, you Mahomet. Kind people have opened + my eyes, you barbarian!” + </p> + <p> + And she slapped him on the cheek. + </p> + <p> + He rose from the table, and staggering, without cap or coat, directed his + footsteps toward Vankin. The latter was at home. + </p> + <p> + “You rascal!” he said to Vankin. “Why have you covered me with mud before + the whole world? Why have you slandered me?” + </p> + <p> + “How; what slander? What are you inventing?” + </p> + <p> + “And who told everybody that I was kissing Marfa? Not you, perhaps? Not + you, you murderer?” + </p> + <p> + Vankin began to blink his eyes, and all the fibres of his face began to + quiver. He lifted his eyes toward the image and ejaculated: + </p> + <p> + “May God punish me, may I lose my eyesight and die, if I said even a + single word about you to any one! May I have neither house nor home!” + </p> + <p> + Vankin’s sincerity admitted of no doubt. It was evident that it was not he + who had gossiped. + </p> + <p> + “But who was it? Who?” Akhineyev asked himself, going over in his mind all + his acquaintances, and striking his chest. “Who was it?” + </p> + <div style="height: 6em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Slanderer, by Anton Chekhov + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SLANDERER *** + +***** This file should be named 23055-h.htm or 23055-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/3/0/5/23055/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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