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Letters of Anton Chekhov (Tchekhov) - Penn State University

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<strong>Anton</strong> <strong>Chekhov</strong>TO A. S. SUVORIN.ALEXIN, May 7, 1891.The summer villa is all right. There are woods and the Oka: it isfar away in the wilds, it is warm, nightingales sing, and so on. It isquiet and peaceful, and in bad weather it will be dull and depressinghere. After travelling abroad, life at a summer villa seems a littlemawkish. I feel as though I had been taken prisoner and put into afortress. But I am contented all the same. In Moscow I receivedfrom the Society <strong>of</strong> Dramatic Authors not two hundred roubles, asI expected, but three hundred. It’s very kind on the part <strong>of</strong> fortune.Well, my dear sir, I owe you, even if we adopt your reckoning, notless than eight hundred roubles. In June or July, when my moneywill be at the shop, I will write to Zandrok to send all that comes tome to you in Feodosia, and do not try and prevent me. I give youmy word <strong>of</strong> honour that when I have paid my debts and settledwith you, I’ll accept a loan <strong>of</strong> 2,000 from you. Do not imagine thatit is disagreeable to me to be in your debt. I lend other people money,and so I feel I have the right to borrow money, but I am afraid <strong>of</strong>getting into difficulties and the habit <strong>of</strong> being in debt. You know Iowe your firm a devilish lot.There is a fine view from my window. Trains are continually passing.There is a bridge across the Oka.245

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