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The count would give them a little money, and they would tramp off again. This was the crazy Balakhin mentioned in "What to Do?" as having had his brain turned by the sight of the luxury in the lives of others. His rags and patches, or rather his conglomeration of patches, surpassed anything we had seen in that line.
One of the lads jumped up and gave him a glass of raspberry voditchka, telling him that it was rare old wine. He promised us all large estates when the Emperor should give him back his own, now wrongfully withheld from him. Balakhin stayed about the place, making himself at home with the servants, for twenty-four hours or more.
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