The character keeps a library, but he is always away visiting; there are no readers.
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Life seems great, enormous, and yet one sits on one's piatachok.[1]
[Footnote 1: The word means five kopecks and also a pig's snout.]
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Zolotonosha?[1] There is no such town! No!
[Footnote 1: The name of a Russian town, meaning literally
"Gold-carrier.">[
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When he laughs, he shows his teeth and gums.
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