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But the sub-professor Yarchenko was obstinate and seemed really angered, although, perhaps, he himself did not know what was lurking within him, in some dark cranny of his soul. "Leave me in peace, Lichonin. As I see it, gentlemen, this is downright and plain swinishness that which you are about to do.
"Fatty," Vera, dressed as a jockey, wheedled the sub-professor, clambering up on his knees, "I have a friend, only she's sick and can't come out into the drawing room. I'll carry her some apples and chocolate. Will you let me?" "Well, now, those are all just stories about a friend! But above all, don't be thrusting your tenderness at me.
"Pray, is a sub-professor of chemistry supposed to hold the rank of a gentleman?" asked Madame Danville, without the slightest appearance of any special interest in Lomaque's news. "Of course not," replied her son, with a sarcastic laugh; "he is expected to work and make himself useful. What gentleman does that?" "Charles!" exclaimed the old lady, reddening with anger.
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