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As for Chichikov, he glanced upwards, and once more caught sight of Kanaris with his fat thighs and interminable moustache, and of Bobelina and the blackbird. For fully five minutes all present preserved a complete silence the only sound audible being that of the blackbird's beak against the wooden floor of the cage as the creature fished for grains of corn.
Apparently the master of the house was himself a man of health and strength, and therefore liked to have his apartments adorned with none but folk of equal vigour and robustness. Lastly, in the window, and suspected cheek by jowl with Bobelina, there hung a cage whence at intervals there peered forth a white-spotted blackbird.
Among them there were placed also, according to some unknown system, and for some unknown reason, firstly, Bagration tall and thin, and with a cluster of small flags and cannon beneath him, and the whole set in the narrowest of frames and, secondly, the Greek heroine, Bobelina, whose legs looked larger than do the whole bodies of the drawing-room dandies of the present day.
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