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Round the samovar and the hostess the conversation had been meanwhile vacillating in just the same way between three inevitable topics: the latest piece of public news, the theater, and scandal. It, too, came finally to rest on the last topic, that is, ill-natured gossip. "Have you heard the Maltishtcheva woman the mother, not the daughter has ordered a costume in diable rose color?" "Nonsense!
No, that's too lovely!" "I wonder that with her sense for she's not a fool, you know that she doesn't see how funny she is." Everyone had something to say in censure or ridicule of the luckless Madame Maltishtcheva, and the conversation crackled merrily, like a burning faggot-stack.
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