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At Malo-Bronnaya (a street in Moscow). A little girl who has never
been in the country feels it and raves about it, speaks about
jackdaws, crows and colts, imagining parks and birds on trees.

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Two young officers in stays.

* * * * *

A certain captain taught his daughter the art of fortification.

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New literary forms always produce new forms of life and that is why
they are so revolting to the conservative human mind.

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A neurasthenic undergraduate comes home to a lonely country-house,
reads French monologues, and finds them stupid.

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People love talking of their diseases, although they are the most
uninteresting things in their lives.