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The owner of the village, who always resided in Petersburg, the widow of the civil councillor Lomov, had so I learned later bestowed this little nook upon the brigadier.
Cucumber, wasn't there a judge about here of that name, hey? 'To be sure there was, Vassily Fomitch, your honour, responded Cucumber, who treated him altogether as a child. 'There was, certainly. But let me have your hook; your worm must have been eaten off.... Yes, so it is. 'Did you know the Lomov family? the brigadier suddenly asked me in a cracked voice. 'What Lomov family is that?
I could get nothing more out of him, so I went away. The next day my friend arrived.... I mentioned the brigadier, and my visits to him.... 'Oh yes! of course! I know his story, answered my friend; 'I know Madame Lomov very well, the privy councillor's widow, by whose favour he obtained a home here.
If you ask me whence, and on what ground I conceived such confidence to the above, madam, there is but one reply: she was sister of Agrippina Ivanovna, and a member of the Lomov family!
For example, the "People's Commissary of Justice," G.I. Oppokov, better known as "Lomov," declared in an interview in January, 1918: "Our chief enemies are not the Cadets. Our most irreconcilable opponents are the Moderate Socialists. This explains the arrests of Socialists and the closing down of Socialist newspapers. Such measures of repression are, however, only temporary."
The brigadier went up to the pedestal, stuck the pinks he was carrying into the jar, and turning to me, and lifting his hand in the direction of the portrait, he observed: 'Agrippina Ivanovna Teliegin, by birth Lomov. The words of Narkiz came back to my mind; and I looked with redoubled interest at the expressive and evil face of the woman for whose sake the brigadier had lost all his fortune.
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