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A rich man, usually insolent, his conceit enormous, but bears his
riches like a cross. If the ladies and generals did not dispense
charity on his account, if it were not for the poor students and
the beggars, he would feel the anguish of loneliness. If the beggars
struck and agreed not to beg from him, he would go to them himself.
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The husband invites his friends to his country-house in the Crimea,
and afterwards his wife, without her husband's knowledge, brings them
the bill and is paid for board and lodging.
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Potapov becomes attached to the brother, and this is the beginning of
his falling in love with the sister. Divorces his wife. Afterwards the
son sends him plans for a rabbit-hutch.
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"I have sown clover and oats."'
"No good; you had much better sow lucerne."
"I have begun to keep a pig."
"No good. It does not pay. You had better go in for mares."
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A girl, a devoted friend, out of the best of motives, went about with
a subscription list for X., who was not in want.
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Why are the dogs of Constantinople so often described?
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