At Malo-Bronnaya (a street in Moscow). A little girl who has never been in the country feels it and raves about it, speaks about jackdaws, crows and colts, imagining parks and birds on trees.

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Two young officers in stays.

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A certain captain taught his daughter the art of fortification.

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New literary forms always produce new forms of life and that is why they are so revolting to the conservative human mind.

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A neurasthenic undergraduate comes home to a lonely country-house, reads French monologues, and finds them stupid.

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