"Ginshop" Quotes from Famous Books
... shouted in a loud voice to his wife, 'heat the samovar, my good soul....' All that day Tatiana hardly went out of the laundry. At first she had started crying, then she wiped away her tears, and set to work as before. Kapiton stayed till late at night at the ginshop with a friend of his, a man of gloomy appearance, to whom he related in detail how he used to live in Petersburg with a gentleman, who would have been all right, except he was a bit too strict, and he had a slight weakness besides, he was too fond of drink; and, as to ... — The Torrents of Spring • Ivan Turgenev |