1 It looks absurd and that makes it noticeable.
2 Or perhaps it is that I chatter because I do nothing.
3 It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of.
4 Give me four roubles for it, I shall redeem it, it was my father's.
5 You come with such trifles, my good sir, it's scarcely worth anything.
6 The bell gave a faint tinkle as though it were made of tin and not of copper.
7 What matters is that people would remember it, and that would give them a clue.
8 Nobody wears such a hat, it would be noticed a mile off, it would be remembered.
9 yes, all is in a man's hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that's an axiom.
10 Her colourless, somewhat grizzled hair was thickly smeared with oil, and she wore no kerchief over it.
11 "Perhaps she is always like that though, only I did not notice it the other time," he thought with an uneasy feeling.
12 He had not far to go; he knew indeed how many steps it was from the gate of his lodging house: exactly seven hundred and thirty.
13 He had forgotten the note of that bell, and now its peculiar tinkle seemed to remind him of something and to bring it clearly before him.
14 Soon he sank into deep thought, or more accurately speaking into a complete blankness of mind; he walked along not observing what was about him and not caring to observe it.
15 It was a back staircase, dark and narrow, but he was familiar with it already, and knew his way, and he liked all these surroundings: in such darkness even the most inquisitive eyes were not to be dreaded.
16 The insufferable stench from the pot-houses, which are particularly numerous in that part of the town, and the drunken men whom he met continually, although it was a working day, completed the revolting misery of the picture.
17 The furniture, all very old and of yellow wood, consisted of a sofa with a huge bent wooden back, an oval table in front of the sofa, a dressing-table with a looking-glass fixed on it between the windows, chairs along the walls and two or three half-penny prints in yellow frames, representing German damsels with birds in their hands--that was all.
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