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'I will marry you, Parfen Semeonovitch, she says, not because I'm frightened of you, but because it's all the same to me how I ruin myself. And how can I do it better? Sit down; they'll bring you some dinner directly.
In another corner was the general, holding forth to a group of hearers, among them Ptitsin, whom he had buttonholed. "I have known," said he, "a real interpreter of the Apocalypse, the late Gregory Semeonovitch Burmistroff, and he he pierced the heart like a fiery flash!
'Let's all go to the theatre, she says, 'and leave him here if he won't go it's not my business. They'll give you some tea, Parfen Semeonovitch, while I am away, for you must be hungry. She came back from the theatre alone. 'Those cowards wouldn't come, she said. 'They are afraid of you, and tried to frighten me, too.
"She came up to me and said, 'Do you know who the Pope of Rome is? 'I've heard of him, I said. 'I suppose you've read the Universal History, Parfen Semeonovitch, haven't you? she asked. 'I've learned nothing at all, I said. 'Then I'll lend it to you to read.
Stop, I'll read it to you! Then she read me a lot of verses, where it said that the Emperor spent all the time vowing vengeance against the Pope. 'You don't mean to say you don't approve of the poem, Parfen Semeonovitch, she says. 'All you have read out is perfectly true, say I. 'Aha! says she, 'you admit it's true, do you?
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