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Mother

CHAPTER XII
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The little, wizened clerk, throwing up his head and turning his neck to the left, looked at the frowning face of the foreman, and said quickly, shaking his reddish beard: "They laugh, Ivan Ivanovich.

It's fun to them.

They are pleased, although it's no less a matter than the destruction of the government, as the manager said.

What must be done here, Ivan Ivanovich, is not merely to weed but to plow!" Vavilov walked with his hands folded behind his back, and his fingers tightly clasped.
"You print there what you please, you blackguards!" he cried aloud.
"But don't you dare say a word about me!" Vasily Gusev came up to Nilovna and declared: "I am going to eat with you again.

Is it good today ?" And lowering his head and screwing up his eyes, he added in an undertone: "You see?
It hit exactly! Good! Oh, mother, very good!" She nodded her head affably to him, flattered that Gusev, the sauciest fellow in the village, addressed her with a respectful plural "you," as he talked to her in secret.


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