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He was a tall, slender young fellow, about seven-and-twenty years of age. Though he used the customary forms, "Give me something, sudarynya* if only a few kopeks, Khristi radi!" there was something about him, despite his rags, there was an elegance of accent in his language, to which I was not accustomed in the "poor brethren" generally. * Madam. For Christ's sake.
Each monk and nun holds a small pad of threadbare black velvet, whereon a cross of tarnished gold braid, and a stray copper or two, by way of bait, explain the eleemosynary significance of the bearers' "broad" crosses, dizzy "reverences to the girdle," and muttered entreaty, of which we catch only: "Khristi Radi" For Christ's sake.
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