Chapter 57: Ladies

Ladies Fyodor Petrovitch the Director of Elementary Schools in the N—— District, who considered himself a just and generous man, was one day interviewing in his office a schoolmaster called Vremensky. “No, Mr. Vremensky,” he was saying, “your retirement is inevitable. You cannot continue your work as a schoolmaster with a voice like that! How did you come to lose it?” “I drank cold beer when I was in a perspiration …” hissed the schoolmaster. “What a pity! After a man has served …