Stepan

*Stepan Trofimovich is an erudite, nervous, tearful man. He is 53 years old, he met a young girl, Sofia Matveyevna. As soon as she appeared in his life, he became more tidy, combed his hair, began to use perfume, his apartment, where things were constantly scattered, became cleaner. He met his beloved at the station, with a bouquet of flowers. And as soon as she appeared in his life, he stopped writing to his old friend, Varvara Petrovna, a despotic, domineering woman. In appearance, she is cold and indifferent, but with confidants she can be expansive. He stopped answering her letters, which made Varvara Petrovna worry, and she decided to find out through a friend, Anton Lavrentyevich, what happened to Stepan Trofimovich. But as soon as she found out that Anton Lavrentyevich did not know anything, she began to worry very much. One day she visited Styopa at home. The house was bright and beautiful, in the hall, on the table there was a crystal vase with a bouquet of flowers. Stepan Trofimovich sat thinking about something, but seeing his old friend, he said:

• Mon Chérie! Don't stand on the threshold, come in, don't be shy.

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