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Updated: June 22, 2025
"Real beaver is not like that. Five roubles would be a high price for the whole cap, if you care to know!" "You know a great deal about it,..." the head guard says, offended. "Five roubles, indeed! Here, we will ask the merchant. Mr. Malahin," he says, addressing the old man, "what do you say: is this imitation beaver or real?"
Eight vans of live stock. Delayed at every station. Kindly send an express number. Reply paid. Malahin." Having sent off the telegram, he goes back to the station-master's room.
After having fed the guard, Malahin goes back to the van. "I have just got hold of the troop train," he says to his son. "We shall go quickly. The guard says if we go all the way with that number we shall arrive at eight o'clock to-morrow evening. If one does not bestir oneself, my boy, one gets nothing.... That's so.... So you watch and learn...."
Malahin lays out before him forms, postal and telegraph receipts, accounts.... He does not know himself definitely what he wants of the gendarme; he wants to describe in the protocol not any separate episode but his whole journey, with all his losses and conversations with station-masters to describe it lengthily and vindictively.
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