[Footnote 1: _Grieshniki_ means "sinners," but sounds like
_grietchnieviki_ which means "buckwheat cakes."]
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"O my dear little pimple!" said the bride tenderly. The bridegroom
thought for a while, then felt hurt--they parted.
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They were mineral water bottles with preserved cherries in them.
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An actress who spoilt all her parts by very bad acting--and this
continued all her life long until she died. Nobody liked her; she
ruined all the best parts; and yet she went on acting until she was
seventy.
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He alone is all right and can repent who feels himself to be wrong.
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The archdeacon curses the "doubters," and they stand in the choir and
sing anathema to themselves (Skitalez).
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He imagined that his wife lay with her legs cut off and that he nursed
her in order to save his soul....
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Madame Snuffley.
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The black-beetles have left the house; the house will be burnt down.
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"Dmitri, the Pretender, and Actors." "Turgenev and the Tigers."
Articles like that can be and are written.
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A title: Lemon Peel.
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