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y tablecloths. * * * * * A Jewish surname: Perchik (little pepper). * * * * * A man in conversation: "And all the rest of it." * * * * * 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. * * * * * 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. * * * * * 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. * * * * * "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." * * * * * A girl, a devoted friend, out of the best of motives, went about with a subscription list for X., who was not in want. * * * * * Why are the dogs of Constantinople so often described? * * * * * Disease: "He has got hydropathy." * * * * * I visit a friend, find him at supper; there are many guests. It is very gay; I am glad to chatter with the women and drink wine. A wonderfully pleasant mood. Suddenly up gets N. with an air of importance, as though he were a public prosecutor, and makes a speech in my honor. "The magician of words ... ideals ... in our time when ideals grow dim ... you are sowing wisdom, undying things...." I feel as if I had had a cover over me and that now the cover had been taken off and some one was aiming a pistol at me. * * * * * After the speech--a murmur of conversation, then silence. The gayety has gone. "You must speak now," says my neighbor. But what can I say? I would gladly throw the bottle at him. And I go to bed with some sediment in my soul. "Look what a fool sits among you!"
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