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The old man had been sitting all the morning on the ledge under his window taking pinches of snuff and warming himself in the sun; he was not very well, so he had not gone to church; he was just setting off to visit another old man, a neighbour who was also ailing, when he suddenly saw Akim.... He stopped, let him come up to him and glancing into his face, said: "Good-day, Akimushka!"
"It's all God's will, Akimushka." "Do you remember you said to me that I was above you peasants, and now you see what times have come.... I'm stripped bare myself."
More than once Akim recalled the words of his only relation, an uncle who had lived in solitude without a family for years: "Well, Akimushka, my lad," he had said, meeting him in the street, "I hear you are getting married." "Why, yes, what of it?" "Ech, Akim, Akim. You are above us peasants now, there's no denying that; but you are not on her level either." "In what way not on her level?"
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