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Updated: May 27, 2025
Then Fomishka suddenly drawled out: "Many, many, many years of life. Many " "Many, many," Kalliopitch chimed in quite unexpectedly, when opening the door for the young men to pass out. The whole four suddenly found themselves in the street before the squat little house, while Pufka's voice was heard from within: "You fools!" she cried. "You fools!" Paklin laughed aloud, but no one responded.
At seven o'clock Kalliopitch produced the inevitable supper of cold hash, and at nine the high striped feather-bed received their rotund little bodies in its soft embrace, and a calm, untroubled sleep soon descended upon their eyelids.
They took an after-dinner nap for an hour, not longer, and on waking up would sit opposite one another again, drinking bilberry wine or an effervescent drink called "forty-minds," which nearly always squirted out of the bottle, affording them great amusement, much to the disgust of Kalliopitch, who had to wipe up the mess afterwards.
The old man-servant Kalliopitch, clad in a jacket of extraordinarily stout cloth with a stand-up collar and small steel buttons, announced, in a sing-song voice, "Dinner is on the table," and stood dozing behind his mistress's chair as in days of old. The sideboard was under his charge, and so were all the groceries and pickles.
At last Kalliopitch made his appearance in his old coat, and opening the drawing-room door announced in a loud voice: "Sila Samsonitch with some other gentlemen, sir!" The Subotchevs were less disturbed than their servants, although the eruption of four full-sized men into their drawing-room, spacious though it was, did in fact surprise them somewhat.
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