to-to-li-to-tom

Updated: May 10, 2025

Alexey Alexeitch drew himself up, made a sign to enforce silence, and struck a note with the tuning fork. "To-to-li-to-tom . . . Do-mi-sol-do!" "Adagio, adagio. . . . Once more." After the "Amen" there followed "Lord have mercy upon us" from the Great Litany. All this had been learned long ago, sung a thousand times and thoroughly digested, and it was gone through simply as a formality.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - Love