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The squire N., looking at the undergraduate and the young girl, the children of his steward Z.: "I am sure Z. steals from me, lives grandly on stolen money, the undergraduate and the girl know it or ought to know it; why then do they look so decent?"
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She is fond of the word "compromise," and often uses it; "I am incapable of compromise…." "A board which has the shape of a parallelepiped."
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The hereditary honorable citizen Oziaboushkin always tries to make out that his ancestors had the right to the title of Count.
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"He is a perfect dab at it." "O, O, don't use that expression; my mother is very particular."
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I have just married my third husband … the name of the first was Ivan Makarivitch … of the second Peter … Peter … I have forgotten.