Hm ... you work pretty efficiently, I must say," Persikov growled, adding naively: "What will you have to eat?" Whereupon the bowler hat smiled and explained that someone would come to relieve him.
The next three days were splendid.
The Professor had two visits from the Kremlin and one from the students whom he was to examine.
The students all failed to a man, and you could see from their faces that Persikov now filled them with a superstitious dread.
Go and be bus conductors! You're not fit to study zoology," came the shouts from his laboratory.
Strict, is he?" the bowler hat asked Pankrat.
I should say so," Pankrat replied.
If any of 'em stick it to the end, they come staggerin' out, sweatin' like pigs, and make straight for the boozer." With all this going on the Professor did not notice the time pass, but on the fourth day he was again brought back to reality, thanks to a thin, shrill voice from the street.
Vladimir Ipatych!" the voice shouted through the open window from Herzen Street.
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