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He was very nice, and like everybody else.
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Everything will be lost.
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To take measures.
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God helps those who help themselves.
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I'll tell him the truth.
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But do stop, for heaven's sake. What right have you?
15
There are limits to human endurance.
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Speak of the sun and you see its rays.
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Fixed idea.
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She scents it from afar.
19
In Russia the relationships that are set up by marriage debar a marriage between a woman's brother-in-law and her sister.
20
The princess has her eye on Lyúba for her son. She is a knowing one, and scents a nice dowry
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One must do her that much justice.
22
Alína is an abbreviation, and a pet name, for Alexándra.
23
And you contradicted them.
24
Yefím was the peasant who had cut down the tree.
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It's too fine spun.
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What energy, I do admire her.
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Oh, as far as that goes, we are not lacking.
28
The woman, for all her roughness, is sorry to part from her husband.
29
People shake hands much more often in Russia than in England, but it is quite unusual to shake hands with a servant, and Nicholas Ivánovich does it in consequence of his belief that all men are brothers.
30
Father Gerásim is modelled on the lines of the celebrated Father John of Cronstadt.
31
He knows that the priest is Father Gerásim, but wishes to address him not as a priest, but by his Christian name and patronymic, as one gentleman would usually address another.
32
Father Gerásim attributes to Pilate what was said by Caiaphas the high priest.
33
The period of compulsory service for a University graduate would be short in any case.