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Updated: May 16, 2025
G. I haven't exactly put it before her. She's the best little woman in the world, Jack, and all that but she wouldn't counsel a man to stick to his calling if it came between him and her. At least, I think M. Never mind. Don't tell her what you told me. Go on the Peerage and Landed-Gentry tack. G. She'd see through it. She's five times cleverer than I am. M. 'Queer way of putting it.
When old age approaches they become either peaceful landed-gentry or drunkards sometimes both. Frequently they have many good qualities, but they have not a grain of poetry in their composition. Grushnitski's passion was declamation. He would deluge you with words so soon as the conversation went beyond the sphere of ordinary ideas. I have never been able to dispute with him.
Descending into the middle of the town, I walked along the boulevard, on which I met a few melancholy groups slowly ascending the mountain. These, for the most part, were the families of landed-gentry from the steppes as could be guessed at once from the threadbare, old-fashioned frock-coats of the husbands and the exquisite attire of the wives and daughters.
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