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Updated: June 5, 2025
If all property were given to Germans or Poles, in a year's time you would not recognise the town." The native in the blue trousers beckons a girl with a sieve, buys a kopeck's worth of sunflower seeds from her and begins cracking them. "A race of curs!" says Lyashkevsky angrily. "That's their only occupation, they crack sunflower seeds and they talk politics! The devil take them!"
At least, I never heard such talk in the market, when I went to buy a kopeck's worth of sunflower seeds. This was all the schooling I had in Russia. My father's plans fell to the ground, on account of the protracted illness of both my parents.
"If that is not satisfactory to you," he added, at the end, "as it hardly can be, I give you my resignation now, and you yourself can take charge immediately." "Bless your heart, no! Put it in the waste-basket. It doesn't make a kopeck's worth of difference. Here's a thought, though. Do you approve of the tactics of those Chronicle fellows in the matter?" "No, I do not."
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