si-i-ixty

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Then, after a pause, he added: "Vice-Governor Khorvat of Tambov is my brother a younger brother; he being fifty-five, and I sixty-one, si-i-ixty one." His speech was rapid, but as precise as though no mistake was permissible in its delivery. "Also," he continued, "as a man cognisant of every possible species of cemetery, I am much dissatisfied with this one.

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