Love

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Love and Other Stories, by Anton ChekhovThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. 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 atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: Love and Other StoriesAuthor: Anton ChekhovRelease Date: September 9, 2004 [EBook #13414]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LOVE ***Produced by James RuskTHE TALES OF CHEKHOVVOLUME 13LOVE AND OTHER STORIESBYANTON TCHEKHOVTranslated by CONSTANCE GARNETTCONTENTSLOVE LIGHTS A STORY WITHOUT AN END MARI D'ELLE A LIVING CHATTEL THE DOCTOR TOO EARLY!THE COSSACK ABORIGINES AN INQUIRY MARTYRS THE LION AND THE SUN A DAUGHTER OF ALBIONCHORISTERS NERVES A WORK OF ART A JOKE A COUNTRY COTTAGE A BLUNDER FAT AND THIN THEDEATH OF A GOVERNMENT CLERK A PINK STOCKING AT A SUMMER VILLALOVE"THREE o'clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking in at my windows and caressingly winking at me with itsstars. I can't sleep, I am so happy!"My whole being from head to heels is bursting with a strange, incomprehensible feeling. I can't analyse it just now—Ihaven't the time, I'm too lazy, and there—hang analysis! Why, is a man likely to interpret his sensations when he is flyinghead foremost from a belfry, or has just learned that he has won two hundred thousand? Is he in a state to do it?"This was more or less how I began ...