But if you had asked him what his work was, he would look candidly and openly at you with his large bright eyes through his gold pincenez, and would answer in a soft, velvety, lisping baritone: "My work is literature."


The Tales of Chekhov (ed. 1919)

Anton Chekhov Quotes

But if you had asked him what his work was, he would look candidly and openly at you with his large bright eyes through his gold pincenez, and would...

But if you had asked him what his work was, he would look candidly and openly at you with his large bright eyes through his gold pincenez, and would...

But if you had asked him what his work was, he would look candidly and openly at you with his large bright eyes through his gold pincenez, and would...

But if you had asked him what his work was, he would look candidly and openly at you with his large bright eyes through his gold pincenez, and would...