How delightful when on a bright frosty morning a new sleigh with a rug comes to the door.
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X. arrived to take up duty at N., he shows himself a despot: he is annoyed when some one else is a success; he becomes quite different in the presence of a third person; when a woman is present, his tone changes; when he pours out wine, he first puts a little in his own glass and then helps the company; when he walks with a lady he takes her arm; in general he tries to show refinement. He does not laugh at other people's jokes: "You repeat yourself." "There is nothing new in that." Every one is sick of him; he sermonizes. The old women nickname him "the top."
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A man who can not do anything, does not know how to act, how to enter a room, how to ask for anything.
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Utiujny
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A man who always insists: "I haven't got syphilis. I'm an honest man.
My wife is an honest woman."
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