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She is surly and smells of a vapor bath.
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N. learned of his wife's adultery. He is indignant, distressed, but hesitates and keeps silent. He keeps silence and ends by borrowing money from Z., the lover, and continues to consider himself an honest man.
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When I stop drinking tea and eating bread and butter, I say: "I have had enough." But when I stop reading poems or novels, I say: "No more of that, no more of that."
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A solicitor lends money at a high rate of interest, and justifies himself because he is leaving everything to the University of Moscow.
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A little sexton, with radical views: "Nowadays our fellows crawl out from all sorts of unexpected holes."