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Nikolai Petrovitch had contrived to fall in love with the daughter of a certain _tchinovnik_ named Prepolovensky, the landlord of his flat; and since the maiden was not only comely, but one of the type known as "advanced" (that is to say, she perused an occasional "Science" article in one newspaper or another), he married her out of hand as soon as the term of mourning was ended,

Thx for the rec Connor