Chapter 100: An Inadvertence

An Inadvertence Pyotr Petrovitch Strizhin, the nephew of Madame Ivanov, the colonel’s widow—the man whose new goloshes were stolen last year—came home from a christening party at two o’clock in the morning. To avoid waking the household he took off his things in the lobby, made his way on tiptoe to his room, holding his breath, and began getting ready for bed without lighting a candle. Strizhin leads a sober and regular life. He has a sanctimonious expression of face, he reads nothing bu…