He remembered how in his father's house in the village a bird would sometimes chance to fly in from the open air into the house and would struggle de… - Anton Chekhov

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He remembered how in his father's house in the village a bird would sometimes chance to fly in from the open air into the house and would struggle desperately against the window-panes and upset things; so this woman from a class utterly alien to him had flown into his life and made complete havoc of it.