Over time, Jacob Sofronych realized: it all started with the suicide of Krivoy, their tenant. Before that, he quarreled with Skorokhodov and promised to convey that Kolyushka and Kirill Severyanych argue about politics. He, Curve, serves in the detective department. And he was surprised because he was kicked out from everywhere and there was nothing for him to live on. Just after this, the director called Kolyushkin to Yakov Sofronych, and Natasha began to meet with the officer, and had to change the apartment, and new tenants appeared, from which Colin's life went to dust.
The school demanded that the son (he is really harsh, even with his father) apologize to the teacher. Only Kolyushka stood his ground: he was the first to humiliate him and mocked him from the first class, calling him not Skorokhodovym, but Skomorokhov, a ragged one. In a word, expelled six months before graduation. Unfortunately, I made friends with the tenants. The poor, young, live like a husband and wife, not married. Suddenly disappeared. The police came, did a search and took Kolya - they took him away before clarification of the circumstances - and then they sent him away.
Not pleased and Natalia. She went to the rink, became even more impudent, came late. Cherepakhin, a tenant in love with her, warned that an officer was caring for her. At home there was a cry and insults flowed like a river. The daughter spoke of an independent life. The final exams are coming soon, and she will live separately. She is taken to a decent department store with a cashier for forty rubles. And so it happened. She only lived now, unmarried, with a man who promised to marry, but only when his grandmother, bequeathed a million, dies. Of course, he did not marry, demanded to get rid of the pregnancy, committed embezzlement and sent Natasha to ask for money from his father. And just then, the director, Mr. Shtose, announced the dismissal of Skorokhodov. The restaurant is very pleased with him, and he has been working for twenty years, he knows how to and knows everything to the finer point, but ... the arrest of his son, and they have a rule ... Forced to dismiss. Moreover, the son had fled from exile by this time. That was true. Yakov Sofronych had already seen Kolyushka. He was - not as before, but affectionate and kind to him. Mother handed the letter and disappeared again.
Lusha, as she read the news from her son, began to cry, and then she grabbed her heart and died. Yakov Sofronych was left alone. Here, however, Natalia, not listening to a roommate, gave birth to her daughter Yulenka and gave it to her father. He already worked as a visiting waiter, yearning for white rooms, mirrors and a respectable audience.
Of course, there were grievances in the same place, there were plenty of ugliness and injustice, however, there was also a kind of art brought to perfection, and Yakov Sofronych completely owned this art. I had to learn to keep my mouth shut. The venerable fathers of families spent thousands with girls here; esteemed elders brought fifteen-year-olds into the office; secretly earned male wives from good families. The worst memories were left by plush upholstered cabinets. You can scream and call for help as much as you like - no one will hear. Still right was Kolyushka. What is the nobility of life in our business ?! For what Karp, the man assigned to these rooms, could not stand it and knocked on the door: so she screamed and fought.
And then another lady’s orchestra played at the restaurant, consisting of strict young ladies who graduated from the conservatory. There was a beauty there, thin and light, like a girl, and her eyes were big and sad. And so, adviser Karasev began to peer at her commerce, whose condition it was impossible to live, because every minute it arrived for five rubles. He will sit in a restaurant for three hours - that's a thousand. But the young lady didn’t even look, and she didn’t accept a bouquet of roses of hundreds of rubles, and she didn’t stay for a chic dinner ordered for the whole orchestra. In the morning, Yakov Sofronych was dressed up to take the bouquet to her apartment. The bouquet was accepted by the old woman. Then a thin one came out and slammed the door: "There will be no answer." A lot of time passed, but the restaurant nevertheless played the wedding of Mr. Karasev. A thin one from him with another millionaire drove abroad due to the fact that Mr. Karasev refused everything from her marriage. So he caught up with them on an emergency train and brought them by force. Still, Kolya was found and arrested. In a letter he wrote: "Farewell, dad, and forgive me for everything that I caused." But just before the trial, twelve prisoners fled, and Kolya was with them, but was saved by a miracle. He escaped from the chase and was at an impasse. Rushed into the shop: "Save and do not betray." The old shopkeeper took him to the basement. Jacob Sofronych went to this man. He thanked, but in response he only said that you could not live without the Lord, but he truly said that he had opened his eyes to the world.
A month later, an unknown man came and said that Kolyushka was safe. After that, everything began to improve little by little. Summer, Yakov Sofronych worked in the summer garden, managed the kitchen and the buffet at Ignatius Eliseich, from the same restaurant where he had once worked. He was very pleased and promised to pat. And then there was the union (the director had to reckon with it now) demanded to restore the illegally dismissed.
And then Yakov Sofronych again in the same restaurant for the usual thing. Only children are not nearby.
