 Wysłany: Sob 17:50, 19 Lut 2011 Temat postu: a little post-office clerk |
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| Europe and mankind in generalauthoritatively predicted that after
Caesarism France would at once sink into the position of a second-rate powerand were firmly convinced that this might terribly easily and quickly come to pass. We had long ago predicted that the Pope would play the part of a simple archbishop in a united Italyand were firmly convinced that this thousand-year-old question hadin our age of humanitarianismindustryand railwaysbecome a trifling matter. Butof course“Russian higher liberalism” could not look at the question in any other way. Stepan Trofimovitch sometimes talked of artand very well though rather abstractly. He sometimes spoke of the friends of his youth—all names noteworthy in the history of Russian progress. He talked of them with emotion and reverencethough sometimes with envy. If we were very much boredthe JewLyamshin (a little post-office clerk) a wonderful performer on the pianosat down to playand in the intervals would imitate a piga thunderstorma confinement with the first cry of the babyand so onand so on; it was only for this that he was invited indeed. If we had drunk a great deal—and that did happen sometimes though not often—we flew in club jordan |
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