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Letters of Anton Chekhov (Tchekhov) - Penn State University

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<strong>Anton</strong> <strong>Chekhov</strong>MOSCOW, February 5, 1891.My mongoose has recovered and breaks crockery again with unfailingregularity.I am writing and writing! I must own I was afraid that my Sahalinexpedition would have put me out <strong>of</strong> the way <strong>of</strong> writing, but now Isee that it is all right. I have written a great deal. I am writing diffuselya la Yasinsky. I want to get hold <strong>of</strong> a thousand roubles.I shall soon begin to expect you. Are we going to Italy or not? Weought to.In Petersburg I don’t sleep at night, I drink and loaf about, but Ifeel immeasurably better than in Moscow. The devil only knowswhy it is so.I am not depressed, because in the first place I am writing, and inthe second, one feels that summer, which I love more than anything,is close at hand. I long to prepare my fishing tackle ….219

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