talta

Updated: May 15, 2025

"It's the Tartar crying." "Oh! he's a queer fish." "He'll get used to it!" said Simeon, and at once he fell asleep. Soon the others slept too and the door was left open. It was reported that a new face had been seen on the quay; a lady with a little dog. Dimitri Dimitrich Gomov, who had been a fortnight at Talta and had got used to it, had begun to show an interest in new faces.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories