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'Who's that? my grandmother inquired of Filippitch, who was walking on tiptoe behind her. 'Of whom ... you are pleased ... Filippitch stammered. 'Oh, fool! I mean the one that looked so sullenly at me. There, standing yonder, not working. 'Oh, him! Yes ... th ... th ... that's Yermil, son of Pavel Afanasiitch, now deceased.
'And what did Piotr Filippitch say to it? 'Filippov, is it? Oh, he's all right. 'You don't say so! Why, I thought, Alexandritch well, brother, thought I, now you 're the goose that must lie down in the frying-pan! 'On account of Piotr Filippov, hey? Get along! We've seen plenty like him. He tries to pass for a wolf, and then slinks off like a dog.
The old footman Filippitch came in, on tiptoe, as usual, with a cravat tied up in a rosette, with tightly compressed lips, 'lest his breath should be smelt, with a grey tuft of hair standing up in the very middle of his forehead. He came in, bowed, and handed my grandmother on an iron tray a large letter with an heraldic seal. My grandmother put on her spectacles, read the letter through....
'Is he here? she asked. 'What is my lady pleased ... Filippitch began timidly. 'Imbecile! The man who brought the letter is he here? 'He is here, to be sure he is.... He is sitting in the counting-house. My grandmother rattled her amber rosary beads.... 'Tell him to come to me.... And you, sir, she turned to me, 'sit still.
"I did see something yesterday!" says Anya, as though to herself. "Filipp Filippitch turned his eyelids inside out somehow and his eyes looked red and dreadful, like an evil spirit's." "I saw it too," says Grisha. "Eight! And a boy at our school can move his ears. Twenty-seven!" Andrey looks up at Grisha, meditates, and says: "I can move my ears too. . . ." "Well then, move them."
Andrey moves his eyes, his lips, and his fingers, and fancies that his ears are moving too. Everyone laughs. "He is a horrid man, that Filipp Filippitch," sighs Sonya. "He came into our nursery yesterday, and I had nothing on but my chemise . . . And I felt so improper!" "Game!" Grisha cries suddenly, snatching the money from the saucer. "I've got the game! You can look and see if you like."
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