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EXCELLENT PEOPLE

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EXCELLENT PEOPLE

By Anton Chekhov

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EXCELLENT PEOPLE

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ONCE upon a time there lived in Moscow a man called Vladimir Semyonitch Liadovsky.

He took his degree at the university in the faculty of law and had a post on the board of

management of some railway; but if you had asked him what his work was, he would

look candidly and openly at you with his large bright eyes through his gold pincenez, and

would answer in a soft, velvety, lisping baritone:

"My work is literature."

After completing his course at the university, Vladimir Semyonitch had had a paragraph

of theatrical criticism accepted by a newspaper. From this paragraph he passed on to

reviewing, and a year later he had advanced to writing a weekly article on literary matters

for the same paper. But it does not follow from these facts that he was an amateur, that

his literary work was of an ephemeral, haphazard character. Whenever I saw his neat

spare figure, his high forehead and long mane of hair, when I listened to his speeches, it

always seemed to me that his writing, quite apart from what and how he wrote, was

something organically part of him, like the beating of his heart, and that his whole literary

programme must have been an integral part of his brain while he was a baby in his

mother's womb. Even in his walk, his gestures, his manner of shaking off the ash from his

cigarette, I could read this whole programme from A to Z, with all its claptrap, dulness,

and honourable sentiments. He was a literary man all over when with an inspired face he

laid a wreath on the coffin of some celebrity, or with a grave and solemn face collected

signatures for some address; his passion for making the acquaintance of distinguished

literary men, his faculty for finding talent even where it was absent, his perpetual

enthusiasm, his pulse that went at one hundred and twenty a minute, his ignorance of life,

the genuinely feminine flutter with which he threw himself into concerts and literary

evenings for the benefit of destitute students, the way in which he gravitated towards the

young -- all this would have created for him the reputation of a writer even if he had not

written his articles.

He was one of those writers to whom phrases like, "We are but few," or "What would life

be without strife? Forward!" were pre-eminently becoming, though he never strove with

any one and never did go forward. It did not even sound mawkish when he fell to

discoursing of ideals. Every anniversary of the university, on St. Tatiana's Day, he got

drunk, chanted Gaudeamus out of tune, and his beaming and perspiring countenance

seemed to say: "See, I'm drunk; I'm keeping it up!" But even that suited him.

Vladimir Semyonitch had genuine faith in his literary vocation and his whole

programme. He had no doubts, and was evidently very well pleased with himself. Only

one thing grieved him -- the paper for which he worked had a limited circulation and was

not very influential. But Vladimir Semyonitch believed that sooner or later he would

succeed in getting on to a solid magazine where he would have scope and could display

himself -- and what little distress he felt on this score was pale beside the brilliance of his

hopes.

Visiting this charming man, I made the acquaintance of his sister, Vera Semyonovna, a

woman doctor. At first sight, what struck me about this woman was her look of

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