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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill Ba ba ba here he is a squeaking voice suddenly rang out straight in his ear, and a flabby hand tapped him on the shoulder. He raised his head, ?and beheld one of his few Moscow acquaintances, a certain Bambaeff, a nice man, one of the triflers, no longer young, with cheeks and nose as soft as though they had been boiled, greasy, dishevelled hair, and a flabby, obese body. Eternally penniless and eternally in raptures over something or other, Rostislaff Bambaeff roamed to and fro, with a hurrah but without occupation, over the face of our long-suffering mother earth. The very person I wanted to see ?he repeated, opening wide his fat-obscured little eyes, and thrusting out his thick little lips, above which a dyed moustache stuck out in a strange and inappropriate manner.? Hurrah for Baden Every one crawls hither like black beetles. How didst thou get here? Bambaeff addressed positively every one on earth as thou. I arrived three days ago. Whence? But why dost thou wish to know? Why, indeed But wait, wait, perhaps thou dost not know who else has arrived here? Gubaryoff That's who is here He came from Heidelberg yesterday. Of course thou knowest him? I have heard of him. Only that? Good gracious Instantly, this very minute, I shall drag thee to him. Not know such a man And, by the way, here 's Voroshi- loff. . . . Stay, perhaps thou dost not know him either? I have the honour to present you to each other. Both of you are learned men. He 's even a very phoenix. Kiss each other And as he uttered these words, Bambaeff turned to a handsome young man with a rosy but already serious face, who was standing beside him. Litvmoff rose, and of course did not kiss him, but exchanged a brief salute with the phoenix...

ISBN-13

9780217552905

ISBN-10

0217552900

Weight

0.55 Pounds

Dimensions

9.00 x 6.00 x 0.37 In

List Price

$19.99

Format

Paperback

Pages

162 pages

Publisher

Published On

2009-08-01



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