The Bishop and Other Stories. From the Russian by Constance Garnett

By Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich

Book Id: WPLBN0000629998
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	The Bishop and Other Stories. From the Russian by Constance Garnett
Author:	Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Excerpt: THE Bishop I. The evening service was being celebrated on the eve of Palm Sunday in the Old Petrovsky Convent. When they began distributing the palm it was close upon ten o?clock, the candles were burning dimly, the wicks wanted snuffing; it was all in a sort of mist. In the twilight of the church the crowd seemed heaving like the sea, and to Bishop Pyotr, who had been unwell for the last three days, it seemed that all the faces ? old and young, men?s and women?s ? were alike, that everyone who came up for the palm had the same expression in his eyes. In the mist he could not see the doors; the crowd kept moving and looked as though there were no end to it. The female choir was singing, a nun was reading the prayers for the day.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: The Bishop and Other Stories, 1 -- Anton Chekhov, 1