Koulyguin (to his wife): "I am so happy to be married to you, that I consider it ungentlemanly and improper to speak of or even mention a dowry. Hush, don't say anything…."
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The doctor enjoys being at the duel.
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It is difficult to live without orderlies. You cannot make the servants answer your bell.
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The 2nd, 3rd, and 6th companies left at 4, and we leave at 12 sharp.[1]
[Footnote 1: Here the fragments from the rough draft of Three
Sisters end.]
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In the daytime conversations about the loose manners of the girls in secondary schools, in the evening a lecture on degeneration and the decline of everything, and at night, after all this, one longs to shoot oneself.