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s was capitalbut where was his father to get that other
seven or eight thousandto make up a suitable price for the estate? And
what if there should be an outcryand instead of that imposing picture it
should come to a lawsuit? Something told Stepan Trofimovitch that the
sensitive Petrusha would not relinquish anything that was to his interest.
“Why is it—as I've noticed” Stepan Trofimovitch whispered to me once
“why is it that all these desperate socialists and communists are at the
same time such incredible skinflintsso avariciousso keen over property
andin factthe more socialisticthe more extreme they arethe keener
they are over property . . . why is it? Can thattoocome from
sentimentalism?” I don't know whether there is any truth in this
observation of Stepan Trofimovitch's. I only know that Petrusha had
somehow got wind of the sale of the woods and the rest of itand that
Stepan Trofimovitch was aware of the fact. I happenedtooto read some
of Petrusha's letters to his father. He wrote extremely rarelyonce a year
or even less often. Only recentlyto inform him of his approaching visit
he had sent two lettersone almost immediately after the other. All his
letters were shortdryconsisting onl buy nike air jordans online |
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