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Why, don't you see for yourselves that this is the most ordinary type of habitue attached to a brothel, and, most probably, he is simply the pimp here, to whom a percentage is paid for the entertainment into which he entices the visitors." "Leave off, Borya. It's foolish," remarked Yarchenko reproachfully. But Borya could not leave off.
If Nastya and Borya made the acquaintance of the Chinese, they would leave donkeys alone, and transfer their affection to the Chinese. They are charming tame animals. ... When I invited a Chinaman to the refreshment bar to treat him to vodka, before drinking it he held out the glass to me, the bar-keeper, the waiters, and said: "Taste." That's the Chinese ceremonial.
Now they write that the younger daughter, a beautiful, plump young girl, is consumptive.... The father writes to me of that and writes to me for a loan of ten roubles.... Ach! I felt awfully unwilling to leave you, but still I am glad I did not remain another day I went away and showed that I had strength of will. I am writing already. Tell Borya, Mitya, and Andrushka that I vituperate them.
"Where I'm going, grandpa, there you mustn't go to-morrow we will meet in the same place as to-day. Good-bye!" They all walked out of the restaurant. At the door Borya Sobashnikov, always a little finical and unnecessarily supercilious, stopped Lichonin and called him to one side. "I'm surprised at you, Lichonin," he said squeamishly.
There was Tolpygin, Ramses, a certain sub-professor Yarchenko Borya Sobashnikov, and others ... I don't recall. We had been boat-riding the whole evening, then dived into a publican's, and only after that, like swine, started for the Yamkas. I, you know, am a very abstemious man. I only sat and soaked up cognac, like a sponge, with a certain reporter I know.
"We have gathered together in our own close company, yet you must needs drag in some vagabond. The devil knows who he is!" "Quit that, Borya," answered Lichonin amicably. "He's a warm-hearted fellow." "Well now, gentlemen, this isn't fit for pigs," Yarchenko was saying, grumblingly, at the entrance of Anna Markovna's establishment.
Lichonin, I, Borya Sobashnikov and Pavlov as jurists, Petrovsky and Tolpygin as medicos. True, Veltman has a distinct specialty mathematics. But then, he will be a pedagogue, a guide of youth, and, deuce take it, even a father! And if you are going to scare with a bugaboo, it is best to look upon it one's self first.
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