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with quiet hatred.
Who? And why? question
the compassionate face
the commander of the brig
Who is this? The “handsome dark-eyed man” of p. 73? Question
the doorman.
the p...
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Archibald Archiba...
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the freebooter
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Pantelei
the poet Riukhin
Schizophrenia, as was Said
a man with a pointed beard and wearing a white coat
Ivan Nikolaevich,
Riukhin
Doctor.’
‘No, he drank, but not really so
little devils,
‘Greetings, saboteur!’ Ivan replied spitefully and loudly.
‘You can all go to the devil!’
‘I’m twenty-three years old,’ Ivan began excitedly,
at Griboedov‘s,
Sashka!’
‘I was there, not you!
‘Devil take them!
Glory will never come to someone who writes bad poems.
Riukhin addressed himself mercilessly. ‘I don’t believe in anything I write! ...’
Poisoned
neurasthenia,
Archibald Archibaldovich
he was essentially quite indifferent to Homeless’s fate and did not feel a bit sorry for him.
cynical, self-annihilating malice
The poet had wasted his night while others were feasting and now understood that it was impossible to get it back.
The cats slinking around the veranda had a morning look. Day irresistibly heaved itself upon the poet.
Styopa Likhodeev
Haha hangover mee too
Styopa Likhodeev, director of the Variety Theatre,
this apartment
had long had,
a strange rep...
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Anna Frantsevna de ...
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people began to disappear from this apartment without a trace.
Magic
Anfisa,
the policeman evidently vanished along with him.
The pious, or, to speak more frankly, superstitious
Well, but with sorcery, as everyone knows, once it starts, there’s no stopping it.
the doors of the two rooms occupied by the Belomut couple turned out to be sealed.
Needless to say, she never came back!
In the morning it turned out that there was also no Anfisa!
Well, what we don’t know, we can’t vouch for.
Haha. Narrator!
It was perfectly natural that, as soon as they got into the malignant apartment, devil knows what started happening with them as well!
Namely, within the space of a month both wives vanished.
Haha
