[The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Vicente Blasco Ibanez]@TWC D-Link bookThe Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse CHAPTER IV 4/88
They responded with freezing courtesy; they lived only for themselves. The other apartment of two rooms was occupied by a single man.
He was a Russian or Pole who almost always returned with a package of books, and passed many hours writing near the patio window.
From the very first the Spaniard took him to be a mysterious man, probably a very distinguished one--a true hero of a novel.
The foreign appearance of this Tchernoff made a great impression upon him--his dishevelled beard, and oily locks, his spectacles upon a large nose that seemed deformed by a dagger-thrust.
There emanated from him, like an invisible nimbus, an odor of cheap wine and soiled clothing. When Argensola caught a glimpse of him through the service door he would say to himself, "Ah, Friend Tchernoff is returning," and thereupon he would saunter out to the stairway in order to have a chat with his neighbor.
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