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at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - It was eight o'clock in the morning
- the time when the officers, the local officials, and the visitors
usually took their morning dip in the sea after the hot, stifling
night, and then went into the pavilion to drink tea or coffee. Ivan
Andreitch Laevsky, a thin, fair young man of twenty-eight, wearing
the cap of a clerk in the Ministry of Finance and with slippers on
his feet, coming down to bathe, found a number of acquain-tances on
the beach, and among them his friend Samoylenko, the army doctor.
With his big cropped head, short neck, his red face, his big nose,
his shaggy black eyebrows and grey whiskers, his stout puffy figure
and his hoarse military bass, this Samoylenko made on every
newcomer the unpleasant impression of a gruff bully; but two or
three days after making his acquaintance, one began to think his
face extraordinarily good-natured, kind, and even handsome. In
spite of his clumsiness and rough manner, he was a peaceable man,
of infinite kindliness and goodness of heart, always ready to be of
use. He was on familiar terms with every one in the town, lent
every one money, doctored every one, made matches, patched up
quarrels, arranged picnics at which he cooked shashlik and an
awfully good soup of grey mullets. He was always looking after
other people's affairs and trying to interest some one on their
behalf, and was always delighted about something. The general
opinion about him was that he was without faults of character.
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