[Illustration] THE GENTLEMAN FROM SAN FRANCISCO _AND OTHER STORIES_ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE GENTLEMAN FROM SAN FRANCISCO _AND OTHER STORIES_ NOTE The first story in this book "The Gentleman from San Francisco" is translated by D. H. Lawrence and S. S. Koteliansky. Owing to a mistake Mr. Lawrence's name has been omitted from the title-page. The three other stories are translated by S. S. Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf. PUBLISHED BY LEONARD & VIRGINIA WOOLF AT THE HOGARTH PRESS, PARADISE ROAD, RICHMOND 1922 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE GENTLEMAN FROM SAN FRANCISCO _AND OTHER STORIES_ BY I. A. BUNIN TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN BY S. S. KOTELIANSKY AND LEONARD WOOLF PUBLISHED BY LEONARD & VIRGINIA WOOLF AT THE HOGARTH PRESS, PARADISE ROAD, RICHMOND 1922 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _Printed in Great Britain by William Clowes and Sons, Limited, London and Beccles._ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS PAGE The Gentleman from San Francisco 1 Gentle Breathing 41 Kasimir Stanislavovitch 51 Son 66 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE GENTLEMAN FROM SAN FRANCISCO "Woe to thee, Babylon, that mighty city!" Apocalypse. The gentleman from San Francisco--nobody either in Capri or Naples ever remembered his name--was setting out with his wife and daughter for the Old World, to spend there two years of pleasure.