Sentence No. 111 · 16 July 2026
He wrapped up the baby, put him under his arm, and strode on.
Anton Chekhov, The Duel
Anton Chekhov — The Duel (1891) · Read it at Project Gutenberg
What holds this sentence together
Notice the three parallel verb phrases — 'wrapped up', 'put', 'strode on' — linked by commas with the final 'and' before the last. When you see this triple structure, the comma-separated actions come first and the 'and' fragment always closes the sequence.
How it appears in Sentle
On Sentle this sentence arrives in 5 pieces, shuffled, with the lines that lead up to it for context. A man wrestles with conscience on a moonlit road. Putting it back in the author’s order is the puzzle — and the order is rarely arbitrary, which is what the note above is about.
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