The Slanderer

Sergey Kapitonlch Akhineyev, the teacher of calligraphy, gave hisdaughter Natalya in marriage to the teacher of history and geography,Ivan Petrovich Loshadinikh. The wedding feast went on swimmingly. Theysang, played, and danced in the parlor. Waiters, hired for the occasionfrom the club, bustled about hither and thither like madmen, in blackfrock coats and soiled white neckties. A loud noise of voices smote theair. From the outside people looked in at the windows;--their socialstanding gave the