“ Nadyezhda Filippovna felt so faint that she could not take off her hat. She looked about her blankly, as though she had been drugged, and convulsively clutched at her mother's arms."What a person to trust: a porter!" said the old lady, fussing round her daughter and crying. "What a jealous girl you are! He is not going to deceive you, and how dare he? We are not just anybody. Though we are of the merchant class, yet he has no right, for you are his lawful wife! ”
Anton Chekhov
Summary
“Bad Weather”, is a work by Anton Chekhov. It explores elements such as Nadyezhda Filippovna, Kvashin and Alexey Stepanovitch.
Quotes from Bad Weather (Anton Chekhov)
“ The mother-in-law of a lawyer, called Kvashin, and his wife, Nadyezhda Filippovna, dressed in waterproofs and shawls, were sitting over the dinner table in the dining-room. It was written on the countenance of the elder lady that she was, thank God, well-fed, well-clothed and in good health, that she had married her only daughter to a good man, and now could play her game of patience with an easy conscience; her daughter, a rather short, plump, fair young woman of twenty, with a gentle anemic face, was reading a book with her elbows on the table ”
“ After two games of patience, the old lady shuffled the cards and took a glance at her daughter."I have been trying with the cards whether it will be fine to-morrow, and whether our Alexey Stepanovitch will come," she said. "It is five days since he was here. . . . The weather is a chastisement from God."Nadyezhda Filippovna looked indifferently at her mother, got up, and began walking up and down the room. ”
