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Updated: May 20, 2025

Semyon, lying with his stomach on the tiller, looked mockingly at him and said: "Even in Siberia people can live can li-ive!" There was a triumphant expression on Canny's face, as though he had proved something and was delighted that things had happened as he had foretold. The unhappy helplessness of the man in the foxskin coat evidently afforded him great pleasure.

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