The Gentleman From San Francisco And Other Stories
The book The Gentleman From San Francisco And Other Stories was written by author Ivan Alekseevich Bunin Here you can read free online of The Gentleman From San Francisco And Other Stories book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Gentleman From San Francisco And Other Stories a good or bad book?
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" A mouse scuttled in the chest of drawers, rolling about a piece of sugar left there by some visitor. . . . Thus half asleep Kasimir Stanislavovitch lay for a long time behind the screen, until the sun had gone from the room and another freshness was 95 Kasimir Stanislavovitch wafted in from the window, the freshness of evening. Then he carefully got himself in order : he undid his bag, changed his underclothing, took out a cheap but clean handkerchief, brushed his shiny frock-coat, top-hat, a...nd overcoat, took out of its torn pocket a crum- pled Kiev newspaper of January 15, and threw it away into the corner. . . . Having dressed and combed his whiskers with a dyeing comb, he counted his money there remained in his purse four roubles, seventy copecks and went out. Exactly at six o'clock he was outside a low, ancient, little church in the Mol- chanovka. Behind the church fence a spread- ing tree was just breaking into green ; children were playing there the black stocking of one thin little girl, jumping over a rope, was con- tinually coming down and he sat there on a bench among perambulators with sleeping babies and nurses in Russian costumes.
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