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Niurka answered him, starting to speak in a rapid, jerky whisper: "Roly-Poly just came here...Gave Manka the candy, and then started in to put Armenian riddles to us...'Of a blue colour, hangs in the parlor and whistles'...We couldn't guess nohow, but he says: 'A herring'...Suddenly he started laughing, had a coughing spell, and began falling sideways; and then bang on the ground and don't move...They sent for the police...Lord, there's doings for you! ... I'm horribly afraid of corpseses!"
They also were met very cordially, just like Karl Karlovich of the optical shop and Volodka of the fish store with raptures, cries and kisses, flattering to their self-esteem. The spry Niurka would jump out into the foyer, and, having informed herself as to who had come, would report excitedly, after her wont: "Jennka, your husband has come!" Or: "Little Manka, your lover has come!"
After her was the turn of Zoe; then of Little White Manka; after that of Tamara and Niurka the last, the doctor found, had gonorrhoea, and ordered her to be sent off to a hospital. The doctor carried out the inspection with amazing rapidity.
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