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1  The candle went out; I could no longer distinguish her face.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
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2  Suddenly I felt a box of matches and a candlestick with a whole candle in it.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
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3  Towards six o'clock they brought in candles, though there were lamps burning in the room.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
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4  The candle end that had been burning on the table was going out and gave a faint flicker from time to time.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
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5  She put down the candle in hot haste and ran off; evidently she had thought of something or wanted to show me something.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
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6  I walked rapidly through the dark shop into the familiar drawing-room, where there was only one candle burning, and stood still in amazement: there was no one there.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
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7  Have you noticed that it is the most civilised gentlemen who have been the subtlest slaughterers, to whom the Attilas and Stenka Razins could not hold a candle, and if they are not so conspicuous as the Attilas and Stenka Razins it is simply because they are so often met with, are so ordinary and have become so familiar to us.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
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