![]() ![]() ![]() wait! No, I say! Anyway, the number of our series is there! Anyway, you understand." "Oh yes! There's the number of the ticket too. "9,499?" she asked, turning pale and dropping the folded tablecloth on the table. His wife looked at his astonished and panicstricken face, and realized that he was not joking. "Masha, 9,499 is there!" he said in a hollow voice. And immediately, as though in mockery of his scepticism, no further than the second line from the top, his eye was caught by the figure 9,499! Unable to believe his eyes, he hurriedly dropped the paper on his knees without looking to see the number of the ticket, and, just as though some one had given him a douche of cold water, he felt an agreeable chill in the pit of the stomach tingling and terrible and sweet! Ivan Dmitritch had no faith in lottery luck, and would not, as a rule, have consented to look at the lists of winning numbers, but now, as he had nothing else to do and as the newspaper was before his eyes, he passed his finger downwards along the column of numbers. ![]() "Yes, it is," said Ivan Dmitritch "but hasn't your ticket lapsed?" ![]() "Look and see whether the list of drawings is there." "I forgot to look at the newspaper today," his wife said to him as she cleared the table. IVAN DMITRITCH, a middle-class man who lived with his family on an income of twelve hundred a year and was very well satisfied with his lot, sat down on the sofa after supper and began reading the newspaper. ![]()
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