A Doctor's Visit by Anton CHEKHOV | Short Story | FULL Unabridged AudioBook 

00:32 The Professor received a telegram from the La Lea Coughs Factory, asking him to come as quickly as possible, the Tartar of some madam Golikov. He sent his assistant, Korolyov, who was met by a coachman wearing a hat with a peacock feather. 01:57 A coachman saw a factory and thought it was quiet and peaceful outside. Still, inside, there was impenetrable ignorance and dull egoism on the owners' side and wearisome unhealthy toil on the side of the work people squabbling vermin vodka. 03:13 The coachman pulled up the horses, and the carriage stopped at a house that had been newly painted gray. There was a flower garden with a lilac bush covered with dust and a strong paint smell. 04:21 Madam Galya cough, a stout elderly lady wearing a black silk dress with fashionable sleeves, looked at the doctor in a flutter and could not hold her hand to him. Beside her stood a personage with short hair and a pince-nez, who was very thin and no longer young. 06:03 Cristina Dmitrievna, a large, tall, ugly woman, was ailing from a child, and the doctors said it was nerves. She let herself be sounded without showing the slightest concern that her shoulders and chest were uncovered. 07:24 Korolyov examined her and said her heart was all right, her nerves had been playing pranks a little, and she should lie down and sleep. 07:58 Korolyov saw a soft, suffering expression on the patient's face and longed to soothe her with simple, kindly words. 08:43 Her mother hugged her daughter and asked why she was crying. Korolyov sat on the side of the bed, took Liza's hand, and said calmly, give over; it's no use crying; come, we won't cry. 10:19 The doctor at the factory gave her Calabro Motty, said the government's, but I notice it only makes her worse. I see no reason to change your doctor, Korolyov said, addressing the mother as he left the bedroom. 11:38 He said I hope I'm not too late, and can you stay with us? She asked, and tears trickled down her cheeks. 12:17 He looked at her, heaved a sigh, and began taking off his gloves without a word and taking off his coat. 12:38 He sat down at the piano and began playing, then looked at the pictures on the walls and portraits. They were all dull, smooth dogs with no trace of talent in them, and his father's uniform sat like a sack on his bulky plebeian figure. 14:00 Korolyov heard whispering in the entry, someone snoring, and harsh, abrupt metallic sounds from outside. They roused strange echoes in his soul. 14:35 Doctor, please come to supper. Cristina Dmitrievna drank Madera, ate rapidly, and talked, looking at him through her pince-nez. 15:02 The work people are very contented; they have lectures with a magic lantern, a splendid tea room, and everything they want. They have a service song for Liz Anka, and there are three of us; in summer, we live here, and in winter, in Moscow. 16:19 The doctor was shown to his room after supper, but he did not feel sleepy. He put on his coat and went out into the cool air, where he saw five blocks of buildings with tall chimneys, barracks warehouses, frogs croaking, and a nightingale singing. 17:30 The work people he met on his way from the station did not look in any way different from the ones he had known long ago in his childhood. The only one who enjoyed her life was Christina Dmitrievna, a stupid middle-aged maiden lady in pince-nez. 19:29 Korolyov heard a strange noise near one of the buildings and then another sound near another building near all the facilities, behind the barracks, and beyond the gates. It seemed as though these sounds were uttered by a monster with crimson eyes. 21:07 The nightingales and frogs could be heard more distinctly; one could feel it was a night in May. Korolyov sat down on the planks and thought the only person who felt happy here was the governess, but the natural person for whom everything was being done was the devil. 22:46 Quarrel Gough thought that the strong and the weak were equally victims of their mutual relations and that an unknown force was looking at him. 23:20 The East was growing paler, and time passed rapidly. It seemed as though everything was dead, and one forgot that there were steam motors, electricity, and telephones inside the five buildings and kept thinking of Lake dwellings of the Stone Age. 24:40 Korolyov sat a little longer, went to the house, sat up for a good while longer, went out to look at the patient, and found her sitting in a low chair beside her bed with her hair down, wearing a dressing gown and wrapped in a shawl. 25:56 She said she often feels wretched almost every night and is constantly being doctored because she is weary and frightened because it is bound to be so and cannot be otherwise. 27:13 Tamara was lonely and saw the devil, but she trusted the doctor and wanted to speak frankly with him, but she was silent, perhaps waiting for him to speak, and he knew what to say to her. 28:43 It was clear to him that she needed to give up the five buildings and the million to leave that devil. 29:06 Korolyov asked why the wealthy heiress didn't give up her wealth, and I said that I was dissatisfied with her wealth and that my sleeplessness does you credit because our parents did not talk at night but slept soundly. 30:27 Our generation sleeps madly, is restless, talks a great deal, and always tries to settle whether we are right or wrong. In 50 years, it will be interesting to have a peep at it. 31:43 Lisa, pale and exhausted, smiled and talked to Korolyov and said that she wanted to tell him something special important to him alone. Korolyov thought of the time perhaps close at hand when life would be as bright and joyous as that still Sunday morning.

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...not done right. cuts off 30:33...thus no ending. otherwise, great reading. thanks.