The Woman In The Case

The Woman in the CaseSmvchkov, A musician, was walking from town to Prince Bibulov's country villa where, to celebrate an engagement, there was to be an evening of music and dancing. On his back lay an enormous double-bass in a leather case. Smychkov was walking along the bank of a river, the cool water of which was running if not majestically, at least extremely romantically.Shall I have a bathe? he thought.Without further ado he undressed and plunged his body in the cool current. It was a gorg...