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Mother

CHAPTER XVII
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The truths are fewer.

That's number two.

I mean to say, they want the same thing that I do; only they proceed by side paths, while I travel on the broad highway.

And thirdly, brother, what business have I with them?
How can a traveler on foot strike up friendship with a man on horseback?
Toward a muzhik, maybe, I wouldn't want to act that way.

But these people, one a clergyman, the other the daughter of a land proprietor, why they want to uplift the people, I cannot understand.


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