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Pavel Petrovich, my dear,
how are you?
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Well, my friends, where's the lady
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whom my heart so yearns to see?
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I have a suspicion, and even think
that she is that lady.
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Pavel Petrovich Shcherbuk, our
neighbor, cavalier, guest and creditor.
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Yes, a close friend
of the late general.
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- Your hand... may I?
- Please don't.
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We believe that the kissing of hands
humiliates women.
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You wouldn't kiss a man's hand,
would you?
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We deplore any form of inequality,
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for at the bottom of any inequality
there's a sprout of humiliation...
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Young man, you're a lawyer,
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you haven't partaken any other
sciences but the humanities.
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So you may harbor
the illusions of freedom,
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equality, brotherhood, and so on.
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As for me, I'm an incorrigible
Darwinist.
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To me, "blue blood", "pure breed"
are nothing but empty words.
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But it wasn't the cook's son who'd
given us sciences, literature, art!
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Don't touch it!
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In the village of Kostovaty there
was a hail the size of a chicken egg.
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- Gerasim Kuzmich!
- Pavel Petrovich, how are you?
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We're having a conversation here,
and you read aloud. It's undelicate.
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By not having the cook's son
sitting at my table,
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I'm protecting the best
there is on the earth,
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I'm participating in the historical
process of natural selection.
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She forgot about humiliation!
She forgot it!