Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends

TO A. S. SUVORIN.

ALEXIN, May 18, 1891.

... I get up at five o’clock in the morning; evidently when I am old I shall get up at four. My forefathers all got up very early, before the cock. And I notice people who get up very early are horribly fussy. So I suppose I shall be a fussy, restless old man....